Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 00:55:50 10/29/05
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On October 29, 2005 at 03:44:05, Uri Blass wrote:
>On October 29, 2005 at 03:36:05, Gabor Szots wrote:
>
>>Often I read in this forum that UCI engines are handicapped under ChessBase
>>GUI's due to bugs in the UCI adapter. Now I have played some games using
>>WinBoard engines under Fritz7 Special Edition. This requires two adapters, one
>>WB to UCI and one UCI-CB. Still task manager shows that all CPU power is given
>>to the engines. In what way are then they handicapped?
>
>The main question is if they get the right commands from the interface.
>
>Note that I have not fritz7 but
>I know that after 256 moves engines may get strange commands from the fritz8 gui
>and the strange commands may cause them to force repetition or to lose on time.
>
>first problem is that they do not get correct information about the time that is
>left after 256 moves.
>
>second problem after more than 256 moves of both sides is that instead of
>getting moves of the opponent they get position and it may cause them to play
>stupid repetition instead of winning.
>
>I do not know about specific problems when the game has less than 256 moves but
>I cannot promise you that there are not other problems.
>
>Uri
Hi Uri
Is the 256 moves problem indeed a problem. I've just searched
in my computer games collection - almost 100,000 games - and
could not find a single game that either was not decisive
within 256 moves or could have been stopped (adjusted) within
256 moves with 1-0, 0-1 or 1/2-1/2.
Regards
Kurt
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