About the "final" Terra and Alaric

[Peter Fendrich]

I have lost my code - almost....
Therefore the new Terra 3.3 is in fact beta version 12 patched to 3.3.
That version is from mid of May-04. The latest code I have saved is from the beginning of 2004. In my own personal view the elo jump between these two versions is about 100 points. That's why I don't wnat to get back to that old code. I also have much fresher code without this uci problem but with a lot of changes inserted for self tuning experiments.

Now, finishing the development with a bug like this isn't fun at all
Bug reports keeps coming in and I just can't sit here looking! (It's not a real bug really, the UCI2 protocol wasn't invented back then)

So I started to look through the code doing all the tedious testing/tuning in order to find out what changes was made at that time.
No promises but if I manage to do it, there will another "final" version.
The bad news is that Alaric have to wait.

If someone want's to try out the current Alaric, be my guest but don't expect any strength from it - I'm just interested in bug reports!

Regards
/Peter

[Norm Pollock]

I now use Terra and also Aice as a WB engine. I then use wb2uci to run them in the fritz8 gui. In my experience they both seem to have intermittant crashes running as a uci.

[Peter Fendrich]

I now use Terra and also Aice as a WB engine. I then use wb2uci to run them in the fritz8 gui. In my experience they both seem to have intermittant crashes running as a uci.

Ok, but did you mix up names Aice and Alaric now?
Alaric is UCI only and isn't for download yet, just by email!

/Peter

[Norm Pollock]

I meant Aice. I do not have Alaric.

If an engine was written for winboard, it is likely that an afterthought update for uci will not work as well as if the engine were originally writtent for uci. Likewise, an engine originally written for uci will not work as well for winboard (nejmet for example). The best approach may be to make an engine for just one interface, and let the converter (wb2uci or polyglot) do the conversion.