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He there!
Is there a product somewhere that lets the engine run through an epd file wihthout being forced to set search time but use depth instead?

In my new engine Alaric I want to test my move order by running testsuites. I want to run the postions in an epd file with a certain depth.
It's an uci engine only but with polyglot I can use the winboard protocol as well.

For instance in EPD2WB I have to set search time. The same for Gradualtest and Arena.

Of course I could include that function into Alaric but this time I don't want to load my engine with tons of functions (like I did in Terra).

/Peter

I don't know of any such tool. What I'd do is just add some code like:

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#define TEST_DEPTH 10
...
#if defined (TEST_DEPTH)
level = depth(TEST_DEPTH)
#endif


Then, just recompile for the depth wanted, or comment out the define for normal working.

I forgot... then use Arena or any other normal EPD processor.

Hello Jos?!

I also have to set a time that guarantee that the depth is reached. At least in uci this means that I have to wait the full time even if the depth is reached much faster. The uci spec says that I shouldn't exit before the gui tells me. But with polyglot...

Hmm, maybe I will write a funktion for this in the end. I have the fen/epd interpreter so it's only a "read line - setup pos - go" loop.
Thanks for answering,
/Peter

You can use Gradualtest by Odd Gunnar Malin. Although it takes the time per position as an argument, you can force it to return early by sending an initialization string, eg:

gradualtest /i test.epd /o test.out /t 999999 /s "xboard\nprotover 2\nsd 6\npost" engine engineargument

Richard.

Richard Pijl wrote:You can use Gradualtest by Odd Gunnar Malin. Although it takes the time per position as an argument, you can force it to return early by sending an initialization string, eg:

gradualtest /i test.epd /o test.out /t 999999 /s "xboard\nprotover 2\nsd 6\npost" engine engineargument

Richard.

You're right in that Gradualtest uses time and otim which polyglot translates to "go wtime x btime y" but unfortunately polyglot doesn't seem to understand the sd followed by otim and time. The depth is never sent from polyglot to Alaric.
I can however hardcode the depth like Jos? suggested and it should work.
/Peter