Author: David Dahlem
Date: 14:10:02 01/02/06
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On January 02, 2006 at 11:34:04, Günther Simon wrote: >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 ;-) Judging by the number of threads here asking how to run UCI engines in WB using polyglot, in my mind that reliability is in question. :-) Regards Dave
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