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Subject: Re: Pro Deo wish for Ed

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 04:44:37 06/15/05

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On June 15, 2005 at 07:31:36, Lex Loep wrote:

>On June 15, 2005 at 06:32:19, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>>It would be nice to have it in wb2uci. I would certainly program it.
>>
>>Ed
>>
>
>Hoi Ed,
>
>If you implement it I suggest these commands:
>
>setvar discard [movelist]   - To exclude moves from the search
>setvar search  [movelist]   - To only search for the moves in the list.
>
>Then add the folling lines in the [Variables] secion of the .cpeini file:
>
>search=String
>discard=String
>
>This will make both option available in the CP GUI's engine properties dialog.
>I am sure its also possible to have the wb2uci adapter map these commands to UCI
>parameters so the same fields will be available in other gui's.
>In a later stage I can make a small modification to fully integrate it in gui.
>( There is already support for include/exclude in the CP gui but not for WB
>engines).

Thanks Lex, I did not know that. Will do that.

Ed



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