Author: James Robertson
Date: 13:58:51 12/16/99
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On December 16, 1999 at 08:38:03, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: I agree completely; the Fritz interface has some serious flaws. While the engine _does_ know how much time it has left, it does not know how much its opponent has left. This can create problems when offering/accepting draws, etc. Unless the engine is specially designed it does lose the learning information. This is a problem with long matches.... My program is very reliant on a book that fits its style. Fritz can get in the way of this if one is not careful. There are many good things too, but I really wish Chessbase would redesign the communication protocol. James >On December 15, 1999 at 22:02:15, brian robson wrote: > >>Successfully installed all available free winboard engines except: >>SOS, Dragon, Lchop and Newrival. All the engines are able to use their own >>opening books except fortress, anmon and zchess. Currently running an automatic >>tourney of all the engines plus fritz6 fritz 5.32 and hiarc7.32.This is a great >>feature of Fritz GUI. You can just sleep off while allowing the tourney to >>continue on his own. > >I hope you realize that the fritz winboard adapter is seriously flawed. > >1.) The engines do not know how much time they have left. Image you as a human >play a game where you know that you have average 10mins/10moves while your >opponent knows the exact time control: 60mins/game. You would play too fast in >the midlegame and loose on time in the endgame ... thats what happenes. > >2.) A lot of engines loose all the hashtable-data because fritz sends the "new" >command + the whole game before every new move. > >3.) This does stop the learning feature of many engines as well. > >4.) opening books are important for some engines, especially fortress for >example. > >5.) You sure that Fritz and friends get the same amount of HT than the other >engines ? I'm not. > >... and other things I probably forgot. > >> Imagine if winboard were to have this feature!!!! > >Why don't you run a few games between 2 engines while at sleep (if you only want >to play 1-3 games between every engine your result isn't gonna be very reliable >anyway ;-) ) and then set it up for the next two engines.... there goes your >RoundRobin tourney... > > >>Have a nice day. > >You too! > >Georg
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