Author: Jeff Lischer
Date: 11:10:36 02/24/05
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On February 24, 2005 at 13:20:48, Günther Simon wrote: >On February 24, 2005 at 13:18:15, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On February 24, 2005 at 13:11:01, Günther Simon wrote: >> >>>On February 24, 2005 at 13:04:42, Jeff Lischer wrote: >>> >>>>On February 24, 2005 at 12:46:33, Gerald Grimsley wrote: >>>> >>>>>Thanks, and any tips on setting them up would be appreciated. >>>>> >>>>>Gerald >>>> >>>>Here's a link that explains exactly how to do this: >>>> >>>>http://home20.inet.tele.dk/larsp/skak/polyglot.html >>> >>>aaaarghhh ...the wrong knowledge about ProDeo still >>>spreads around! >>> >>>**Propably the strongest free engine for Windows is a UCI engine. It is ProDeo, >>>formerly known as the commercial engine Rebel** >>> >>>This is of course wrong, ProDeo is a plain WB engine. >>> >>>Guenther >> >>Winboard version: >>02/03/2005 07:15 PM 549,404 PRODEO.EXE >> >>UCI version: >>02/03/2005 07:15 PM 241,664 rebeluci.exe > > >Dann, even you start to spread that wrong info around now... ;) >The second one is just Odds WB2UCI adapter. >(It seems some people use 2 adapters because of that false myth >instead of _none_) > >Guennther It's true that Pro Deo is a plain winboard engine, but I think the story is a bit more complicated than that. For a long time I used Pro Deo as a UCI engine (using wb2uci) under Arena. This works great and I could play games or use Pro Deo as an analysis engine. Then I tried using Pro Deo as a winboard engine in Winboard. It would work to play games, but it absolutely would not work as an analysis engine. Eventually, I was told that it couldn't work as an analysis engine because Pro Deo uses winboard protocol 1, which doesn't support analysis. I then tried using Pro Deo in Winboard as a UCI engine with polyglot. Bingo! Analysis mode then worked. I guess there's something about the latest wb2uci adapter that allows the analysis mode to work. To summarize, the I was able to use Pro Deo as an analysis engine under a winboard gui by: Pro Deo (winboard) -> UCI (using wb2uci) -> winboard (using polyglot) Maybe it doesn't have to be that complicated, but it's the only way I could get it to work. I haven't tried this in SCID, but I assume the same problem might exist there. Have you used Pro Deo in SCID for analysis as a plain winboard engine?
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