Author: Mike Hood
Date: 20:27:59 09/22/04
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On September 22, 2004 at 16:14:14, Klaus Wlotzka wrote: >Hallo Mike, > >I have received the native version of List 512 from the author. I got the engine >some weeks before the publication planned originally. The UCI version of List >5.12 was published instead of the native version for some time later. I had >already played numerous games with the native version at this time. > >For which reasons the native version wasn't published isn't known to me. >It was assured to me by the author that the versions are identical. I have >therefore used the engine furthermore. > >I don't understand your problem. The identical "UCI version" of this engine >stands by the free download at the disposal. Why do you cause such a problem >from this? > >The author has decided well for any reasons to publish no native version. He >will have his reasons. Very praiseworthy I find it, that he still makes his very >strong engine available free. As a "UCI version" the engine can practically in >everybody GUI be used. As native engine only with the Chessbase GUI. I see >nothing negative there. > >I assume that no native version of List will be published in future. I then will >test with the UCI version, too. > >Best regards > >Klaus Klaus, as I have already stated elsewhere in this thread (and in personal correspondence with you), my reason for preferring not to use the UCI version of List 5.12 has nothing to do with List itself; it is because Chessbase's UCI support is buggy. Sometimes not enough memory is allocated for hash tables; the clock always starts before the UCI engine has finished initialising. If these problems are fixed in Fritz 9 I'll keep quiet.
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