Author: Heinz van Kempen
Date: 19:04:15 09/15/05
Hi all, browsing through the messages from last weeks one word about my experiences and those told to me by other CEGT testers. If you use a ChessBase GUI before native Shredder 9 and never cared for downloading a free and newer UCI.dll you will definitely encounter the 1 MB bug, especially for Deep Sjeng, Yace, Pharaon and some others that are naturally UCI. You could avoid this by configuring some engines with Wb2UCI adapter, but better simply download a new UCI.dll. All CEGT testers with Fritz GUI are using a new UCI.dll and after checking the task manager many thousands of times we did not encouter the 1 MB bug anymore. Known testers like Claude Dubois have demonstrated with many hundred games that with a new UCI.dll this problem is fixed. There will be other bugs like not being able to handle games with more than 256 moves and so on, but there is no flawless GUI up to now. It was claimed that UCI engines have disadvantage against native engines. Why then does Fruit 2.1 perform so well also against those? Should it not perform worse against them and better against other UCI engines also allegedly handicapped. I am not really a ChessBase fan and read a lot about lousy support for custumers. Just to mention that CEGT testers of course also use Shredder Classic GUI and Arena (depends on engines, that have to be tested, as you can´t test a few like Junior and Hiarcs in other GUI´s). Moreover we are using shorter general books (not Nunn and Noomen positions currently, although they are also fine), because we want to test mainly the strength of the engine itself. We do not like books adapted to certain opponents or lines with 30 moves and more and we already have an endgame position after this. So this topic for me is finished. I am fed up with this discussions with many who only like their own GUI, because their are many fine ones and will not answer to responses where intentions are clear. In this forum there are sometimes overaggressive people, so it is not my favourite one. Best Regards Heinz
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