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Subject: Re: Polyglot

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 08:34:04 01/02/06

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On January 02, 2006 at 11:26:01, David Dahlem wrote:

>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. :-)

Even for UCI engines my above message applies ;-)

>
>Regards
>Dave



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