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Subject: Re: Polyglot

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 08:07:34 01/02/06

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On January 02, 2006 at 11:00:26, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On January 02, 2006 at 10:27:27, Günther Simon wrote:
>
>>On January 02, 2006 at 10:01:23, phili_ppe wrote:
>>
>>>On January 02, 2006 at 02:32:23, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi Aloisio
>>>>I have not idea but do not understand why
>>>>you should want to use Polyglot/Winboard.
>>>>Try the fine and free Arena-GUI available at
>>>>http://www.playwitharena.com/ which is the
>>>>best GUI for UCI-/Winboard engines in my
>>>>opinion.
>>>>Best regards
>>>>Kurt
>>>
>>>Hello
>>>I use Polyglot for UCI engines for Toga & Rybka but I have noticed the nodes per
>>>seconds and the search depth  decrease dramaticly with a UCI2WB adaptator.
>>>Engine -> Polyglot -> Winboard -> Polyglot ->engine
>>>All these ways weaken too much the uci engine.
>>
>>That's wrong. You probably just mean the _display_ in WB which _seems_
>>to be decreased (because of a lot of output from UCI engines for the
>>first 4 plies). If you look into the debug files you will see that
>>your assumption was wrong.
>>
>>Guenther
>
>      Hi Guenther
>      I have never used Polyglot and am sure you know
>      things very well. The main question remains: why
>      should anybody use an an adapter for a UCI engine
>      instead of avoiding this by working with Arena GUI?
>      Best regards
>      Kurt


...because WB is by far the stablest and most reliable GUI,
which also uses the least ressources and has the best additional tools :)

Best regards,
Guenther



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