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Subject: Re: RetroAnalysis in ChestUCI

Author: F. Huber

Date: 05:15:34 05/08/05

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On May 08, 2005 at 07:28:23, F. Huber wrote:

>On May 08, 2005 at 06:43:11, John J. J. Smith wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know how to get this to work in Chessbase? I get an error as below.
>>
>>WinCHEST Ver.3.19e+, 01-May-2005
>>Options = -M128 -Z-4 -11 -el -C1 -0 -5 -SUr
>>Input file: STDIN
>>Reading job:
>>% created by ChestUCI Ver.4.1
>>Input error in line   5: missing job-depth
>>Input line = 'z-4w'
>>
>>Thanks.
>
>Hi John,
>
>this looks more than strange!? :-(
>
>A commandline option ´-Z-4´ (or ´z-4w´ in Chest´s input file) shouldn´t be
>possible at all - I just had a short look at my source code and I´m quite
>(if not absolutely) sure, that actually this _is_ not possible!
>
>So please can you give some further details:
>1) which problem did you try to solve (FEN + mate in ?)
>2) the values of all ChestUCI options (maybe you can post the content of
>   ChestUCI.ini AFTER this error occured - but first close Chessbase!)
>
>Regards,
>Franz.

Hi John,

I´ve just found out, what the problem is - you forgot one important setting:

When using ´RetroAnalysis´ you MUST set the correct ´SearchDepth´ for the
current mainline you´re analyzing BEFORE starting the analysis - otherwise
ChestUCI of course couldn´t know who deep to search!
(but this is all described in detail in the file ´English.txt´!)

So if SearchDepth is set to a value less than the move number (which you´re
actually analyzing), this will give these negative options to Chest and
produces the error message.
This is of course not a bug in ChestUCI, but simply an erroneous handling
of ChestUCI by the user.

If at all than it´s rather _my_ bug, not being able to imagine such strange
user inputs - but of course I´ll fix this in ChestUCI ... ;-)

Regards,
Franz.




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