Author: Vladimir Xern
Date: 10:40:18 09/11/05
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On September 11, 2005 at 13:00:01, Thomas Logan wrote: >On September 11, 2005 at 11:14:16, Olivier Deville wrote: > >>On September 11, 2005 at 10:54:10, David Dahlem wrote: >> >>>On September 11, 2005 at 10:45:13, Norm Pollock wrote: >>> >>>>On September 11, 2005 at 09:51:11, Thomas Logan wrote: >>>> >>>>>I was reading further down the page that fritz has an adapter to run wb engines >>>>> >>>>>Is it any good or is wb2uci the better option ? >>>>> >>>>>Tom >>>> >>>>wh2uci IS the adapter! Fritz runs UCI engines and native chessbase engines only. >>>>WB engines require the wb2uci adapter to run as UCI engines. >>> >>>Hi Norm >>> >>>As a matter of fact, there is the old WB to CB adapter that allows running WB >>>engines in Fritz as WB engines. :-) >>> >>>Regards >>>Dave >> >>Hi all >> >>Let's add that 2 winboard engines, namely SmarThink and Jonny, come with an >>adapter for the CB GUI. This one is certainly not the old buggy adapter provided >>by ChessBase. >> >>Olivier > >Are these adaptors particularly for Jonny and Smarthink or can they be used for >all WB engines ? > >Is this better than wb2uci ? > >Tom No. As I recall, the Chessbase winboard adapter had the "feature" that after each move, the interface sent the "new game" command to the engine. Thus, the winboard engines were not able to utilize their hash tables from previous moves, and performed substantially weaker. I believe that SmarThink was specially coded to ignore that new game command, but for most engines, stay far, far away from the winboard adapter.
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