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At the moment I'm playing around with FRC engines a bit.
Ufim 8.2 is on of the newest and I give it a try.

Starting it with the FRC enabled xboard version I got the error message:

volker:~> xb960 glaurung-1 ufim-2 -lpi 1 -mg 2
xboard-960: Variant fischerandom not supported by Ufim 8.02
volker:~>

Starting Ufim at the commandline and in the log I found:

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Ufim 8.02 (July 2006)
hash size = 32 MB
xboard
protover 2
feature done=0
...
feature myname="Ufim 8.02"
feature variants="normal"
feature colors=1


Therefore xboard's reaction was absolutely correct.

It should be:

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feature variants="normal,fischerandom"


It would be nice if someone xould forward this report to Niyaz because our ISPs don't like each other and I can't reach him by email. Maybe he could try vpittlik (AT) arcor.de instead.

Volker

Homer 1.02 Linux provides also an uncorrect variant string.

Volker

Hi Volker,
Ufim and Homer have implemented UCI-SMK-style FRC.
Maybe WB-Arena-style FRC is not implented.
Only BigLion, Taktix and ChessGUI know all 3 styles (including UCI-Arena-style).
Best,
Matthias.

Matthias Gemuh wrote:Hi Volker,
Ufim and Homer have implemented UCI-SMK-style FRC.
....

Oops, didn't found it although it is clearly in the readme. Thanks.

Wimm start a small FRC tournament soon.

Volker

Matthias Gemuh wrote:...
Only BigLion, Taktix and ChessGUI know all 3 styles (including UCI-Arena-style).
Best,
Matthias.

I only use the UCI style (HAha). I made a test with BigLion and Taktix with wine under Linux and they both seem to run.

I write seem because I'm running a small tournament and have to face some unexpected problems. BigLion and Taktix will run a gauntlet after the tournament.

Volker

Unfortunately there are no FRC engines weak enough for BigLion
to beat, so a gauntlet would only test stability .
BTW, some FRC engines malfunction if Ponder = ON.

Matthias.

Matthias Gemuh wrote:Unfortunately there are no FRC engines weak enough for BigLion
to beat, so a gauntlet would only test stability .
BTW, some FRC engines malfunction if Ponder = ON.

Matthias.

I didn't noticed that so far. Pharaon makes out-of-turn moves when playing here. But I guess this has something to do with using it with wine.

The same is unfortunatly true for Taktix: it doesn't quit at game end.
More bug reports and results to follow.


Volker

BigLion and Taktix have never misbehaved here, and they play FRC often.
Only Jonny has never worked correctly.
I use ChessGUI and Windows 2000 Pro.

Matthias.

Matthias Gemuh wrote:...
I use ChessGUI and Windows 2000 Pro.

Matthias.

I predicted that. I wrote before I run Linux and use wine to play the Windows progs.

I couldn't find the reason why it sometimes works and sometimes not. Spike for example played 30 games in a row without any problem yesterday. Today I have to kill it every time manually. Not a good idea to let them play over night or weekend unattended.

Volker

You are right. Ufim 8.02 supports UCI-only FRC.
By the way, where can I find the protocol specifications for WB-Arena-FRC and WB-Xboard-FRC ?

Niyaz Khasanov wrote:...
By the way, where can I find the protocol specifications for WB-Arena-FRC and WB-Xboard-FRC ?

I think WB-Xboard-FRC is using the UCI specifications which can be found at the end of this document: http://download.shredderchess.com/div/uci.zip.

I don't know is there is a document for the Arena variant somewhere. I got it once by inspecting the debug information there. X-FEN can be found by google.

Volker

BTW: The debug and log files you requested in the other thread will send to you ASAP.