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Subject: Re: For Graham Banks or any Wb2Uci knowledgeable person.......

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 07:55:13 04/18/05

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On April 18, 2005 at 10:52:46, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On April 18, 2005 at 10:16:10, Martin Baumung wrote:
>
>>On April 18, 2005 at 10:05:52, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Graham and others, i have one problem.......
>>>
>>> I have never used before, Chessmaster parameters using outside text files. I
>>>used to have the parameters inside Wb2Uci.eng and not with the command:
>>>"Personality=<readfile>|combo|CM9File"
>>>
>>> I want to create the SKR for example, personality with a text file.
>>>Before using text files, i had the following working method:
>>>-----------------------------------
>>>[ENGINE]
>>>Name=CM9000-SKR
>>>Author=Johan de Koning
>>>Filename=Wb2Uci.exe
>>>
>>>[OPTIONS]
>>>Program=TheKing.exe
>>>InitString=cm_parm default\cm_parm opk=611970 opp=100 opn=100 opb=100 opr=100
>>>opq=100 myp=100 myn=100 myb=100 myr=100 myq=101 cc=105 mob=110 ks=155 pp=100
>>>pw=100 avd=-2 cfd=0 sop=100 rnd=0 sel=12 md=99
>>>HashCommand=cm_parm tts=33554432 ttu=7
>>>InitTime=4
>>>.............
>>>.............
>>>Visible=Ponder,Hash
>>>----------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> But now, using a text file, i have a file called CM9SKR.param and the following
>>>Wb2Uci.eng:
>>>----------------------------------
>>>[ENGINE]
>>>Name=CM9SKR
>>>Author=Johan de Koning
>>>Filename=Wb2Uci.exe
>>>
>>>[OPTIONS]
>>>Program=TheKing.exe
>>>InitString=cm_parm default\ncm_parm
>>>
>>>HashCommand=cm_parm tts=33554432 ttu=7
>>>.................
>>>.................
>>>
>>>[EXTRAS]
>>>Personality=<readfile>|combo|CM9SKR
>>>----------------------------------
>>>
>>> But this method creates an engine that DOESN'T play with SKR settings but only
>>>with default ones......
>>> I thought (it is in the Wb2Uci help) that the problem is that the CM9SKR file
>>>which has to be accessed, should be a txt file so i renamed the CM9SKR.param to
>>>CM9SKR.txt but with no success in having the correct personality running at
>>>Cheebase-GUI......
>>>
>>> Can you tell me what is inside your Wb2Uci.eng and if you have CM9SKR.param or
>>>CM9SKR.txt...........?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>The CM9SKR.param file has the following:
>>>++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>[CM9SKR]
>>>Opponents Pawn (opp)=100
>>>Opponents Knight (opn)=100
>>>Opponents Bishop (opb)=100
>>>Opponents Rook (opr)=100
>>>Opponents Queen (opq)=100
>>>............
>>>............
>>>Opponent's Weakness (oppw)=100
>>>ShowThinkingMove=1
>>>Logfile=1
>>>++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>>
>>Hi George,
>>
>>the Wb2Uci.eng file looks fine and here's what the CM9SKR.txt (txt not param)
>>should look like:
>>
>>;---- CM9SKR.txt
>>; A personality created by Sedat Canbaz, Kurt Utzinger, Rolf Buehler
>>cm_parm opp=100 opn=100 opb=100 opr=100 opq=100
>>cm_parm myp=100 myn=100 myb=100 myr=100 myq=101
>>cm_parm cc=105 mob=110 ks=155 pp=100 pw=100
>>cm_parm cfd=0 sop=100 avd=-2 rnd=0 sel=12 md=99
>>;---- File end
>>
> Yeah i thought so, thanks, i've seen this before but i thought it may be
>another way.....
> But the CM9SKR.param was the exact one that Graham has sent me and that he was
>using for his tournament.
> So is there any chance that Graham had found a way to use the contains of the
>CMSKR.param to have a correct and working SKR personality? Graham......?
> Because it will be a tough job for me to convert all (~23 the number)
>CM9xxx.param files to have the "cm_parm" command in front of each parameter and
>to rename them too.......! :-(
>
> So Graham did you use the CM9xxx.param files or something else.........? And
>please if you have the CM9xxx.txt with the "cm_parm" command in front of each
>can you sent them to me for getting me out of the trouble to convert
>them.........

Some error corrections........



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