Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 18:13:33 09/26/99
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On September 25, 1999 at 20:53:19, James T. Walker wrote: >On September 24, 1999 at 14:21:25, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On September 24, 1999 at 13:32:36, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>Will the new Junior do EPD processing? >> >>Good question. On the chessbase site you can see this discussion of "engine >>research operating system", which looks pretty interesting, but I'll be damned >>if there's an easy, documented way to ask one of the chessbase engines to take >>an epd position and return some results. >> >>Rebel can even take an epd string right on the command line... way better. >> >>Does anyone know if there is some end-user COM-based interface so that it would >>be possible to pass in a position and get analysis info back? At least then one >>could hack up a VB program to talk to it quickly. >> >>Dave > >Hello Dave, >This EPD thing is something I never use so I'm not sure if it's what you're >talking about but the Fritz GUI does have an "Import EPD positions" function in >the database section. >Jim Walker I need scriptability, i.e. tasks must be automatable. Example: a program decides to look at some chess positions, it runs Fritz or Hiarcs or Junior or Nimzo or whatever and says "analyze these with these settings", gets the results, uses the results to decide on new positions to analyze, instantiates the software again, giving it new positions, et cetera. Say with MS Office, this sort of stuff would be doable, because Word and Excel and Access all have COM interfaces that one can hook into for "Automation" purposes. If CB's gui was similarly automatable, and I could set up some code that would run for weeks without human interruption, that would be of real use for scientific experimentation. Perhaps it will happen someday, but this isn't exactly their target market. (I post this in the hopes that they are running out of other features to add, though. :-) Dave
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