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Subject: Re: Patch for Scatha 0.2.9 (GUI book, adjustable hash tables)

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 15:03:08 10/31/05

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On October 31, 2005 at 17:28:06, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On October 31, 2005 at 17:01:06, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>
>>Little mistake on your webpage:
>>
>>"GUI opening book support added, for UCI chess engines which don't have an
>>opening book of their own (like Diablo, Homer and Shredder). This is activated
>>from the "Engine" > "Configure Active Engine" menu item."
>>
>>Shredder UCI (Mac/Linux) comes with 3 opening books.
>
>Unless I am missing something, the sentence is correct as it is written.  The
>UCI *engine* Shredder does not have any opening book support.  The Shredder
>*GUI* has book support, but that is not the same thing.  It means that Shredder
>cannot use its own book when playing in other GUIs like Sigma Chess, Jose or
>Scatha.
>

You're right, I didn't think about that. This would mean the delivered books can
onyl be used in the Shredder GUI. Grmpf.


>>Keep the features comming! Next an engine-engine room with swiss pairing
>>manager? ;)
>
>The top of my priority list right now is engine configuration, followed by
>better
>PGN functionality.  I also consider to add some analysis features, like MultiPV
>and automatic analysis of games.  I currently don't plan to add any
>sophisticated
>engine vs engine or engine tournament features.  In my opinion, command line
>utilities are better suited for such tasks (and I *do* plan to eventually write
>such
>a utility).
>
>Tord

Actually I don't care about engine-engine tournaments. It was meant as a joke.
:)

regards
Andy



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