Author: Madhavan
Date: 00:07:38 07/05/05
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On July 04, 2005 at 23:24:15, Peter Skinner wrote: >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. Strange you have'nt ecountered 2 major problems with Arena "Time"management and "swiss" pairing bugs In time manage ment,when you run 1 minute game,I noticed one engine made a move,its time was supposed to dleay 1 second,instead it delayed 4 seconds. There are many easily noticable bug in Swiss pairing,where there were 4 engines with 6 points,one of the engine had a chance to play any of the 3 engine,Arena's pairing generates matching that engine with some lower order 3 points. >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? Yes,I agree with you on this.he claims "chessbase is a database program" :) :) :) and his team claim "Junior[WCCC Champion] doesnt play chess" ha ha ha :) :) did you miss that post?
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