Playing chess 960 against SMIRF

[Roland Chastain]

Smirf UCI seems to work correctly now. Thank you for your help.

Smirf UCI 0.0.1 alpha

[Roland Chastain]

Added a perft command ("perft n"). Git repository updated.

It isn't Smirf UCI who disconnects now (because of a move not recognized), it's Cute Chess who crashes at the beginning of some games, with a message saying "Cannot initialize player Smirf".

I will make some tests with Winboard.

[Roland Chastain]

With Winboard, Smirf UCI seems to works perfectly. But I didn't find how to play a FRC tournament. Is it possible?

[H.G.Muller]

Sure. Just switch to FRC with the New Variant dialog, and then start a tournament. Running a tournament should not alter the variant you are in.

[Roland Chastain]

Sure. Just switch to FRC with the New Variant dialog, and then start a tournament. Running a tournament should not alter the variant you are in.

Great. Thank you for your answer.

By the way, I tried, for fun, to replace SmirfEngine.dll with older versions. It didn't work, I got a runtime error 217.

[Roland Chastain]

A little but important correction has been done. And now Smirf UCI has an icon and a logo for Winboard.

Smirf UCI 0.0.1 alpha 3

I could include Smirf UCI in a FRC tournament with Winboard. It was working correctly. From time to time Smirf UCI exited unexpectedly, but the tournament could go to the end.

[Roland Chastain]

Finally I found the explanation for the runtime error 217. It's because of SmirfEngine dependencies to other libraries. I don't have some of them, and the other weren't in the good directory. After that, I have three different versions of SmirfEngine.dll working. Maybe I will add a command line option or a INI file, so the user can select the version that Smirf UCI will use.

[Roland Chastain]

I looked after the problem of the hash size. As a quick solution, I decided to use a hardcoded value. For now it's 32 (I saw a discussion where you proposed 32 as a possible value). I see that here you suggest 128.