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Subject: Re: Pro Deo wish for Ed

Author: Kaj Soderberg

Date: 08:43:55 06/15/05

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On June 15, 2005 at 07:44:37, Ed Schröder wrote:

>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

Sounds like a dream coming true. Most appreciated.

Best regards,

Kaj



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