Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 04:20:12 08/11/04
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On August 11, 2004 at 06:34:34, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >On August 11, 2004 at 05:33:32, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>Just updated my pages with a FAQ, I list the most important issues. >> >>Under ChessBase and perhaps other Interfaces such as Arena, ChessMaster, >>Winboard a time-control problem may or may not occur. Using the tournament time >>control make sure that time-control-1 is equal to time-control-2 and that you >>zero time-control-3. So: 40/2hr+40/2hr or 40/20+40/20. Doing otherwise it may >>happen PRO DEO will start moving instantly after move 41 for the rest of the >>game. >> >>.... >> >>It's safe to add the following parameter to your REBEL.ENG personality file as >>found in the sub-folder PERSONAL. >> >> [Pruning = MISC_78] >> >>The parameter adds considerable strength to PRO DEO on longer time controls, >>approximately 5-10 elo. You can download the new setting HERE. Unzip REBEL.ENG >>into your PRODEO/PERSONAL folder, it will automatically overwrite the old one. >> >>http://members.home.nl/matador/faq.htm >> >>Ed > >Hi Ed, > >the problems we have with Arena Support: > >01. A lot of users seems to be sleeping with adapters / converters with a good >feeling because users need adapters / converters for other GUIs. Arena don't >need such things because Arena have a great WB and UCI support (after all what I >know the best support from all available GUIs and this is fact). We tested it in >a big group of persons around 10 months (last year in summer time). Now we must >make support for persons which try to add engines in Arena with adapter :-( > >In German I say: >EIN ALPTRAUM! >Niemand hängt an einem Ferrari eine Anhängerkupplung! > >02. The second problem is the move limit. Some users reported that in Arena >tourneys ProDeo seems to make problems after 120 moves. The complete tourney >will not longer running. Only for ProDeo to make changes in Arena is not in our >interest because we have the same opinion as Tim Mann. To make now bigger >changes in a good running GUI with execelent protocol support is danger for >other programs which works fine. >It's not in the interest of our team to make the situation more complicated. The >compatiblity is our first interest. You know that I try since years to make all >compatible and to give some helps for users. Example are the WB pages "Frank's >Chess Page" as number 1 in the FIDE statistics at this time. > >Best >Frank > >PS: >More easy is more user friendly and more support friendly for other persons >which try to make a little bit. I hope you can thinking about it and a good >engine don't need a FAQ. A good readme file is absolutly enough and the users >have more fun with an engine! > >PS2: >After a long time it's nice to see that you go the way of WB. You make the >engine compatible to the others. I thinking on your comments for 4-5 years, the >time WB have success. You are not a fan of this engine protocol in this time and >it's nice to see that you go now the right way. But better with a clear engine >with clear configuration. If not in all fora we can read a big configuration >chaos, maybe this is in your interest but for the others, like the Arena team >it's horror because I get more and more mails with questions to converter and >adapter. In fact Arena don't need it and now I have to explain that Arena don't >need such a way. In the past I explain the converter / adapter (like Phase X by >Gambit-Soft with more as 300.000 reading pages). Okay then, I will make sure that in the next version Pro Deo will refuse to run under Arena. My advantage: I don't have to listen to your ramblings anymore, your advantage no more support emails. Everybody happy. My best, Ed
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