Author: jefkaan
Date: 09:03:23 07/05/05
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On July 04, 2005 at 23:24:15, Peter Skinner wrote: > >Are you using the same book for both programs? If so, that could be causing >your troubles. Always use separate books. yes, i also had problems when i used the same book in a tourn with different engines, and also noticed strange things with the Swiss pairing when one engine had a bye; the tourn simply stopped. well yes i know this is not the Arena forum but i liked to see if other people had similar problems with Arena 1.1 Obviously Arena can have some bugs; every program can, Winboard had bugs for *years*; no big deal. But it's programmer arrogance to call every bug a user mistake or misunderstanding, as Conkie seems to imply. >Are you sure you are using the correct >parameters for Shredder? Is it using the correct amount of hash? yes it is not a hash problem. but it might be a book problem, when i use a small selfmade book as engine book for Shredder, and not an Arena 'mainbook', i often get problems on ICC, especially against Symbolic (who has a large book and plays the book moves fast; after that Shredder won't start, Symbolic has no-escape activated, and that has costed me many points); yes i will experiment with some other settings, the book by Harry Schnapps isn't bad, it's not perfect either but who cares. > > >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. yes i am thinking to switch to the Polyglot protocol; if i wont be able to solve my Arena problems. > i do like the Arena interface, the way the book maker is set up is nice and simple but obviously the program isn't idiot proof yet (as a good program has to be, as any professional IT person knows, except some nerdy hacker type kides who think they smarter than the rest of the universe as they happened to be able in programming a chess engine; no need to call names here if you know what i mean) JEf
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