Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 01:41:02 10/29/05
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On October 29, 2005 at 03:45:09, Dann Corbit 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? > >Please clear your hash. >OK, Here's your position. Think and move. >Please clear your hash. >OK, Here's your position. Think and move. >Please clear your hash. >OK, Here's your position. Think and move. >Please clear your hash. >OK, Here's your position. Think and move. >Please clear your hash. >OK, Here's your position. Think and move. >Please clear your hash. >OK, Here's your position. Think and move. > >It's probably pretty close to a 50% penalty. But most UCI engines just ignore >itnow. Same with winboard. > >There are some other things like that. At any rate, I don't know it it is >intentional. Plain old incompetence could account for it. "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice", as I read somewhere recently. A brilliant play on the famous old Arthur C. Clarke quote. :-) Tord
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