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Subject: Re: Polyglot

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 08:26:01 01/02/06

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On January 02, 2006 at 11:07:34, Günther Simon wrote:

>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

Well, WB is not reliable for UCI engines, in fact, needs an adapter simply to
run UCI engines. :-)

Regards
Dave



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