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Subject: Re: ProDeo Uci problem?

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 06:58:26 01/24/05

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On January 24, 2005 at 09:46:31, O. Veli wrote:

>  I wanted to use ProDeo under Chess Informant's Expert lite program. It did not
>work. When I contacted the programmer, s/he said the following:
>
>"I've tried using rebeluci.exe manually, typing the commands. Program either
>didn't produce any meaningful information or crashed after some period of time.
>
>The sequence of commands is as follows:
>
>post
>ponder off
>uci
>
>isready
>
>setboard
>go infinite
>
>After this, program usually crashes, but not immediately.
>
>I would be able to help you if I had got it to work manually, but something is
>obviously not right. It should not crash, even if I'm not posting valid
>commands."
>
>Then I tried the following:
>
>"
>uci
>  idname ...
>  uciok
>
>isready
>  readyok
>
>ucinewgame
>go
>  info depth 1 score 1"
>
> after which the program crashed.
>
>  Is there a problem with ProDeo's UCI handling or is this another instance of
>the dangerous, semi-knowledgeble user in action?
>
>Thanks for your time,

The commands given from the Informant people seems like a mix of xboard and uci.

In your try you forget to set the position to search, ucinewgame is just a hint
of a new game.
Try this:

uci

isready
(wait for readyok)

position startpos

go infinite

Odd Gunnar



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