Author: John J. J. Smith
Date: 02:23:53 05/09/05
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On May 08, 2005 at 08:15:34, F. Huber wrote: >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 ... ;-) > Thanks Franz for this. I had read English.txt but obviously misunderstood it. The problem was caused because the position started at move 22, not 1. I had put in a value of 14 (to indicate the depth to the mate) and that caused the error. Perhaps that point should be clarified in the help to avoid grief for other users. John
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