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Subject: Re: Chessbase Winboard Engines Adapter

Author: Marcelo Yamauchi

Date: 11:09:19 07/23/99

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On July 23, 1999 at 08:12:25, Inmann Werner wrote:

>On July 23, 1999 at 01:24:11, Marcelo Yamauchi wrote:
>
>>   Does anybody know if the Chessbase Company intends to do some upgrade in >your Winboard-Engines Adapter?  I have been noticing that even with you >init-files, some motors have been presenting several problems:
>>
>>a) inferior ELO-performance that the native motor rotating in Winboard: Crafty
>>(original version for windows), Bionic 4.1.;
>
>some programs with no fritz tuning suffer of the cleaning of the hashtables.
>Also it can be a problem, that before each move, the board gets reseted and all
>moves till now get send, costing much times for some engines, especially in
>Blitz.
>
>>
>>b) Difficulties in the administration of the time of game: Skaki, Anmon 4.26,
>>Fortress 1.61, Inmichess 2.16;
>
>Yes, I also see this problem, which is not under winboard (for Inmichess, my
>program). Winboard and Fritz send before (after?) each move a command, how much
>time is left for how much moves. I read this and work with it. Till now, I have
>not found the logic of Fritz“s time sending command, how he calculates it...
>With increments, the problem does not occur so bad.
>>
>>c) "Inexplicable Bugs" during the match: First versions of Little Goliath,
>>Olithink, Monik 19
>
>Had also the problem with a1-a1. This happened, when my program was not
>installed full (no openbook...). Then my program produced wrong moves (move for
>the wrong color) which I think is interpreted as a1-a1 from fritz (not sure).
>But it sure is a bug in the engines. I also get it now sometimes, when I take
>back moves and so on but am not able to find the bug.
>
>>
>>I can be wrong, but I think that would be perhaps better Chessbase to rethink
>>the form as your " adapter " links with these different engines, leaving him/it
>>in similar molds to the of products as the Chessvision / Chesspartner.
>
>At all, I like my program under the Fritz Environment very much, because you can
>see much, and have much options. For Tournaments in earnest, I prefer Winboard.
>
>Greetings
>
>Werner






Hello, Werner!

When I included your winboard engine in my text yesterday, I placed it as a
generic example of the  the winboard adapter produced by Chessbase needs to be
improved, in spite of agreeing with the Chessbase that, for tournaments
engine-engine and ELO estimation, he is better.

I admire the effort that you and some other programmers (like Michael, of Little
Goliath) has been doing in the sense of releasing compatible versions with the
program original winboard as for the adapter of Fritz. And I hope increases the
cast of compatible programs for Chessvision, that doesn't stop being an
interesting concept.

Making justice to your interesting chess program, it would like to place the
following performances of Inmichess here in the winboard adapter of Fritz (for
games with 3 ' and 5 ' Blitz and Hashtables of 4096 kb each):

NAME:                 Games  ELO-RATING

Inmichess 2.16          64      2366
Inmichess 2.15b        130      2233

Congratulations for your newest engine and I hope the next version of Inmichess
can reach the 2400 ELO.



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