Winboard + UCI2WB + Fruit

[Fabien Letouzey]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Fabien Letouzey at 11 March 2004 11:50:00:


Let's not forget this is a Winboard forum.
Volker explained to me a known bug in UCI2WB, but it should only show up in multiple time controls (xx moves in yy mins). So sudden death possibly with increments should work fine (not sure if UCI2WB handles increments).
Also, maybe use other similar adapters instead?
Does anybody have problems running Fruit under Winboard (indirectly, I mean).
Fabien.

[Günther Simon]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Günther Simon at 11 March 2004 12:02:24:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Winboard + UCI2WB + Fruit geschrieben von: / posted by: Fabien Letouzey at 11 March 2004 11:50:00:

Let's not forget this is a Winboard forum.
Volker explained to me a known bug in UCI2WB, but it should only show up in multiple time controls (xx moves in yy mins). So sudden death possibly with increments should work fine (not sure if UCI2WB handles increments).
Also, maybe use other similar adapters instead?
Does anybody have problems running Fruit under Winboard (indirectly, I mean).
Fabien.

Hi Fabien, there were other problems too with the old UCI2WB
adapter, but I forgot most of them, as it is long ago I used it.
AFAIK there was a bug in long drawish endgames when the UCI
prog for whatever reason lost on time in a dead drawn position.
May be it had sth to do with draw offers or similar...
I would welcome an improved UCI2WB to invite UCI only programs
to my Winboard competitions.
Regards,
Günther

[Fabien Letouzey]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Fabien Letouzey at 11 March 2004 12:37:58:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Re: Winboard + UCI2WB + Fruit geschrieben von: / posted by: Günther Simon at 11 March 2004 12:02:24:

Hi Fabien, there were other problems too with the old UCI2WB
adapter, but I forgot most of them, as it is long ago I used it.
AFAIK there was a bug in long drawish endgames when the UCI
prog for whatever reason lost on time in a dead drawn position.
May be it had sth to do with draw offers or similar...
I would welcome an improved UCI2WB to invite UCI only programs
to my Winboard competitions.

Yes, I think several people make it quite clear that I can't rely on existing Windows software.
I use my own software on Linux, so at least if there is a problem I can only blame myself.
Unfortunately porting the software to Windows is not easy matter (for instance Fruit could not play a single move two days ago whereas it had played hundreds of games on Linux). But, I am confident Dann Corbitt will take care of that
If all goes well after Fruit 1.0 is released I will work on my "uci2wb" adapter and hopefully make UCI engines work perfectly under Winboard.
But let's not hope too much and see what happens ...
Fabien.

[Igor Gorelikov]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Igor Gorelikov at 11 March 2004 12:40:53:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Winboard + UCI2WB + Fruit geschrieben von: / posted by: Fabien Letouzey at 11 March 2004 11:50:00:

Let's not forget this is a Winboard forum.
Volker explained to me a known bug in UCI2WB, but it should only show up in multiple time controls (xx moves in yy mins). So sudden death possibly with increments should work fine (not sure if UCI2WB handles increments).
Also, maybe use other similar adapters instead?
Does anybody have problems running Fruit under Winboard (indirectly, I mean).
Fabien.

Hello Fabien,
I'm not using Pfister's UCI2WB adapter anymore because of the following:
When two UCI engines play each other and they run into repetition they start repeating moves million times.
Your engine will be included into my next New Long Infinite Loop. Unfortunately it will be not earlier than in a month.
Best regards,
Igor Gorelikov
http://www.digichess.gr/infiniteloop/home.php

[Matthias Gemuh]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Matthias Gemuh at 11 March 2004 13:00:16:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Re: Winboard + UCI2WB + Fruit geschrieben von: / posted by: Günther Simon at 11 March 2004 12:02:24:

Let's not forget this is a Winboard forum.
Volker explained to me a known bug in UCI2WB, but it should only show up in multiple time controls (xx moves in yy mins). So sudden death possibly with increments should work fine (not sure if UCI2WB handles increments).
Also, maybe use other similar adapters instead?
Does anybody have problems running Fruit under Winboard (indirectly, I mean).
Fabien.

Hi Fabien, there were other problems too with the old UCI2WB
adapter, but I forgot most of them, as it is long ago I used it.
AFAIK there was a bug in long drawish endgames when the UCI
prog for whatever reason lost on time in a dead drawn position.
May be it had sth to do with draw offers or similar...
I would welcome an improved UCI2WB to invite UCI only programs
to my Winboard competitions.
Regards,
Günther

And the adapter crashed frequently after end of game.
I don't remember whether this happened only when game was draw.
Maybe I and Günther are talking about same bug.
/Matthias


BigLion + Taktix

[Günther Simon]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Günther Simon at 11 March 2004 13:02:16:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Re: Winboard + UCI2WB + Fruit geschrieben von: / posted by: Igor Gorelikov at 11 March 2004 12:40:53:

Let's not forget this is a Winboard forum.
Volker explained to me a known bug in UCI2WB, but it should only show up in multiple time controls (xx moves in yy mins). So sudden death possibly with increments should work fine (not sure if UCI2WB handles increments).
Also, maybe use other similar adapters instead?
Does anybody have problems running Fruit under Winboard (indirectly, I mean).
Fabien.

Hello Fabien,
I'm not using Pfister's UCI2WB adapter anymore because of the following:
When two UCI engines play each other and they run into repetition they start repeating moves million times.
Your engine will be included into my next New Long Infinite Loop. Unfortunately it will be not earlier than in a month.
Best regards,
Igor Gorelikov
http://www.digichess.gr/infiniteloop/home.php

Yes Igor, thanks for remembering me That was one of the bugs
I also had experienced, but forgot meanwhile.
As I am still writing this post, I remember another bug too,
sometimes the UCI program suddenly started to move for the
other side and all went out of sync!
Best regards,
Günther

[Norm Pollock]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Norm Pollock at 11 March 2004 13:43:49:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Re: Winboard + UCI2WB + Fruit geschrieben von: / posted by: Günther Simon at 11 March 2004 13:02:16:

I had trouble using SOS 3/4 with uci2wb. SOS would not leave memory after being checkmated. Some people thought this to be an SOS problem, but I don't know where the fault lies.

[Igor Gorelikov]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Igor Gorelikov at 11 March 2004 14:20:58:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Re: Winboard + UCI2WB + Fruit geschrieben von: / posted by: Norm Pollock at 11 March 2004 13:43:49: