Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 14:19:47 12/16/99
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On December 16, 1999 at 16:58:51, James Robertson wrote: >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. I hope so ... :-) But the GUI is fantastic ! Frank >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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