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Subject: Re: Pro Deo wish for Ed

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 03:43:11 06/15/05

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On June 15, 2005 at 06:11:15, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:

>On June 15, 2005 at 05:19:48, Ernst Walet wrote:
>
>>On June 15, 2005 at 04:11:33, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>
>>>On June 15, 2005 at 03:46:28, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 14, 2005 at 12:50:46, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 14, 2005 at 08:10:27, Jeff Lischer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On June 14, 2005 at 03:07:35, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On June 14, 2005 at 02:01:07, Kaj Soderberg wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Dear Ed,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Being an old Rebel fan, i would very much appreciate if you would consider Pro
>>>>>>>>Deo supporting the analysis include/exclude function in the Chesspartner
>>>>>>>>interface. It was a superb Rebel DOS feature, and i'm sure there are others
>>>>>>>>missing it too.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Anyway, good luck. Looking forward to future Pro Deo's, and starting to play
>>>>>>>>around with the Silver settings soon.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hi Kaj,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>The engine still has the 2 facilities, the interface hasn't. So you should ask
>>>>>>>the developers of the interfaces to make it happen.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>My best,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Ed
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>The Shredder UCI interface has both include and exclude functionality. You
>>>>>>select a move with CTRL to include it and with SHIFT to exclude it. Do you think
>>>>>>these functions will work with Pro Deo in Shredder UCI?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>If there are specific UCI commands for the functions then I can make that.
>>>>>
>>>>>Ed
>>>
>>>>Yes, this is included in UCI. Get the specification of UCI from
>>>>www.shredderchess.com/download.html and search for "searchmoves".
>>>
>>>Interesting, I will have a look into that.
>>>
>>>Ed
>>
>>Isn't it so because PD is a winboard engine (to my knowledge) it should be
>>supported by wb2uci? Or are you changing to UCI Ed?
>>
>>Greetings,
>>Ernst.
>
>I can add this feature to the adapter if it is needed, is there any wb-engine
>that support this feature (I didn't find a command in ProDeo for this)?
>
>In my own engine I have two commands:
>
>discard [movelist]   - To exclude moves from the search
>search  [movelist]   - To only search for the moves in the list.
>
>Both of these command are easy to implement in the adapter.
>
>The first (discard) is because it's easier to use when you run the engine in
>console mode, but from a gui it shouldn't be needed.
>
>[movelist] is a list of moves with space inbetween ( search Nxf6 a2a4 Ra1-c1
>etc.).
>
>Another interesting command is MultiPv option but it could be hard to interpret
>the returning line since there isn't a standard for this. I know Chessmaster
>support this with simply add a number to the analyze command (analyze 3) but I'm
>not on a machine with CM installed right now to see how they respond in the
>pv-line.
>

After a little think, the pv-line could look exactly like it is now. The adapter
can keep track of which pv-line that are sent based on the ply and score. I
guess this is what CM do too.

Odd Gunnar



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