Author: David Dahlem
Date: 15:27:44 01/02/06
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On January 02, 2006 at 18:01:55, Günther Simon wrote: >On January 02, 2006 at 17:10:02, David Dahlem wrote: > >>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. :-) > >It's more about the reliability of the users as usual ;-) >Not knowing how to do something is completely irrelevant >for the matter of Polyglots reliability, but you sure know this. >May be you forgot about the zillions of threads here, when people >posted games in whatever GUIs, which were simply flawed by user setups. >However, if you don't like WB for whatever reason no one forces you to >use it, but talking bad about something you don't know is simply weird. > >Regards, >Guenther Your points all all well taken, but ... an unreliable user will have problems with any interface. A reliable user who can manage to use polyglot with WB will have an easy time using an interface that doesn't require polyglot. Regards Dave
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