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Subject: Re: UCI or not UCI?

Author: Gabor Szots

Date: 11:25:21 04/17/05

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On April 17, 2005 at 13:13:08, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On April 16, 2005 at 11:36:24, Gabor Szots wrote:
>
>>Why does the Shredder Classic GUI say that Deep Sjeng and Pharaon are not UCI
>>engines?
>
>It is a typical message of Shredder GUI, when a combined UCI/WB-engine
>initializes TBs, before it is ready to answer the uci command of the GUI. Often
>WB-engines have a command to setup TBs in the configuration file. Deleting this
>might help. Sometimes it helps to try a few times in a row, too. The second
>time, the engines initializes TBs is normally much faster than the first time,
>and the GUI won't timeout again.
>
>Regards,
>Dieter

Hi Dieter,

Thanks for the hint, it was very useful. In the case of Pharaon the repeated
procedure did help, I will have to check the other cases.

Yes, in all of the trouble cases a combined WB/UCI engine was involved.

Best wishes,
Gábor



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