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Subject: Re: UCI or not UCI?

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 06:16:26 04/17/05

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On April 17, 2005 at 06:49:11, Gabor Szots wrote:

>On April 17, 2005 at 03:30:42, Fabien Letouzey wrote:
>
>>On April 17, 2005 at 02:21:37, Gabor Szots wrote:
>>
>>>On April 16, 2005 at 16:15:52, Thomas Mayer wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi Gàbor,
>>>>
>>>>>BTW, I have a new problem engine, Quark.
>>>>
>>>>and what is the problem with Quark ?
>>>>
>>>>Greets, Thomas
>>>
>>>Hi Thomas,
>>>
>>>The problem is that when I want to install Quark under Shredder Classic as an
>>>UCI engine, Shredder Classic displays a message saying 'this is not a UCI
>>>engine'.
>>
>>Hi Gabor,
>>
>>Please always post log files if the GUI allows it (possibly using copy/paste).
>>
>>Fabien.
>
>
>Hi Fabien,
>
>Although I don't know exactly what I am asupposed to do, here are the log files
>that wer created by the engines while they were being installed as a UCI engine.
>
>
>Deep Sjeng log:
>
>Allocated 4194304 hash entries, totalling 134217728 bytes, in shared memory.
>Deep Sjeng version 1.6, Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Gian-Carlo Pascutto
>
>Initializing EGTB
>
>
>Pharaon 3.2 log:
>
>Pharaon 3.2 on a AMD 1825Mhz with 480MB of RAM
>By Franck ZIBI (fzibi@yahoo.com).
>Application name : C:\Sakk\WinBoard\Engines\Pharaon\Pharaon_32.exe
>For the last versions, visit: http://www.fzibi.com/pharaon.htm
>10:39:54.170 409 positions loaded from 'z_learn.epd' (1 duplicated)
>10:40:00.436 Found TableBase Files, up to 5 men
>10:40:00.545 HashTables set to 128 MB (8388608 entries)
>10:40:00.545 Null Move: USE_NULL_MOVE;USE_ZUGZWANG_HEURISTIC;MATE_THREAT;
>10:40:00.545 Learning : ENABLE_BLUNDER_LEARNING;ENABLE_BOOK_LEARNING;
>10:40:00.545 Ordering : hash;capture;killer;counter;check;historical (with IID)
>10:40:00.545 96237 entries found in the Opening Book (z_book.bin)
>10:40:00.561 <uci
>10:40:00.561 Playing under UCI Protocol
>10:40:00.561 id name Pharaon 3.2
>10:40:00.561 id author Franck ZIBI
>10:40:00.561 option name Nullmove type check default true
>10:40:00.561 option name Ponder type check default true
>10:40:00.561 option name Clear Hash type button
>10:40:00.561 option name Hash type spin min 1 max 256 default 128
>10:40:00.561 option name NalimovPath type string default C:\Sakk\TB.emd
>10:40:00.561 option name NalimovCache type spin min 1 max 32 default 4
>10:40:00.561 copyprotection checking
>10:40:00.561 copyprotection ok
>10:40:00.561 uciok
>10:40:00.623 <quit
>10:40:00.623 Leaving the program
>
>Although SC said 'this is not an UCI engine', installing was successful after
>waiting some time.
>
>It seems to me the problem is with engines that are both WB and UCI if they are
>not UCI by default.
>
>Gábor


I guess you have to delete/rename its ini file if using it
as plain UCI. It would be good though to see the GUI debug
too, as the GUI had complained.
Pharaons log at least shows it reads its ini file first.

Guenther



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