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Does this Gui have also have a bad winboard protocol support?
My operator for cct is having lots of time failures with this gui when
scorpio is installed as a winboard engine. And when i looked at the debug file it seems that scorpio gets non-native commands like "depth" , and also the "time" command is not send properly which is what i think is causing the problem.
Does wb2uci fix the problem? Otherwise i am off to implement kibitz code and use Winboard.
Thanks in advance
Daniel

I can confirm that Scorpio has problems in ChessPartner, leading to losses in time. I am not sure, whether the ChessPartner implementation of Winboard is buggy, although out of the probably 100 engines I have run so far in ChessPartner only Scorpio, SlowChess and Amyan show this problem.

Robert

Thanks for the confirmation!
I don't know what things scorpio does differently, but i expect that
if it works under Winboard, then it should work on any other gui which supports the protocol correctly. Well for the tournament we used Wb2UCI which fixes the problem. For anyone using scorpio in GUI's other than Winboard and Arena, I recommend to use wb2uci.
regards,
Daniel

Daniel Shawul wrote:...For anyone using scorpio in GUI's other than Winboard and Arena, I recommend to use wb2uci.
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Thank you too!

BTW: Rolling out the red carpet, fanfare, congratulations!

Volker

well we had some luck,but what the hell :)
The SKILL and NEVER SAY DIE spirit scorpio showed is fantastic.

Daniel

Daniel Shawul wrote:well we had some luck,but what the hell :)
The SKILL and NEVER SAY DIE spirit scorpio showed is fantastic.

Daniel

Hello Daniel,

Luck is ever a part of these events but what it showed is the skill of the programmer of Scorpio as well.



I liked where the Baron placed in that field as well but I have not reviewed the games yet.

Later.

edit: Double post removed

Hello Roger

You do notice a programmer's skill :)

Seriously though, luck plays the most important role.
I had endgame bugs that could pop up any time(which didn't), and other's like spike's poped up at crucial time. I wouldn't have mind if Spike got the full point, but also i don't feel bad taking the half point:) Scorpio had already made some serious mistakes in the endgame to get to that point.

Anyway it was fun to beat engine's which scorpio had no chance in long tournaments.

regards,
Daniel

I'm not familiar with the engine in question but Chesspartner have very configurable interface for Winboardengines (http://www.lokasoft.com/engineext.ini_file_layout). Most defaults are ok with the exeption of this depth command. The time command should be sent before each move as default, but the user could have changed this.
I have not tested wb2uci with Chesspartner much, but at least in analysis mode there are (was) problems.
There was some writing/problem about timemanagement (eg. timestamp.exe) on ICC a while back, was he running the latest gui (5.4).

I tried to get Scorpio working under CP a while back but failed

if anyone has this working please either post here or on the CP forum.

Here is the link to the lokasoft forum where I raised this problem

http://www.lokasoft.nl/forums?func=view ... =2065#2065

Shaun