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Subject: Re: arena bug

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 20:24:15 07/04/05

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On July 04, 2005 at 19:05:15, jefkaan wrote:

>first i thought it was a shredder bug, but
>its probably more an Arena bug.
>what happens is this:
>
>if you play with shredder 9 (but also with
>fruit and some other uci engine) with arena
>against a program with a huge opening book
>like symbolic, then the engine simply fails
>to analyze. This is a bug. it is not a user
>mistake, it looks to me as an Arena bug; if other
>people notice the same problem then they should
>report that; to improve the program.
>its not a bad program Arena but it has bugs
>its not like Winboard which has been debugged
>as we all know.
>now with some tricks like using an uci
>engine again with winboard you also
>can use shredder fritz or whatever
>but maybe better that arena fix their bug
>jef

I use Arena quite a bit with UCI engines and I have never seen the problem you
describe.

Are you using the same book for both programs? If so, that could be causing your
troubles. Always use separate books. Are you sure you are using the correct
parameters for Shredder? Is it using the correct amount of hash?

The latest version of Arena is actually quite stable. I haven't had to many
problems with it at all.

If you want to use a UCI engine with Winboard, set it up with Polygot and you
will have little problems.. unless you use the same book for both programs.

Peter

P.S - I also just noted that Chris posted to your problem. Typical response from
him when you have anything negative to say about Arena. Gotta love the support
staff there eh?



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