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Steven Atkinson



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PostPost subject: Re: ScidVsPC/Mac    Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 12:44 pm Reply to topic Reply with quote
hgm wrote:
Indeed. A UCI engine will ALWAYS send "bestmove" to indicate it stopped searching. So "stop" is really "move now".

So you should keep track of how many "go" you have sent, and ignore "bestmove" untill there is only a single "go" pending, because that will be the "bestmove" corresponding to the last search you started.

Note that there are crummy engines, which cannot stand if you load a new position or start a search before they have sent "bestmove". These engines need the "syncstop" work-around of Polyglot, which makes it wait for "bestmove" after sending "stop" before continuing.



Now it works Smile but with an occasional game hang. So i'll commit this.

I tried doing a "wait after stop" (to discard a bestmove) before issuing new position/go - but it seemed to cause time issue.

But now, all i'm doing is discarding a single bestmove if stop is issued... but i guess i'll have to do a counter like you suggest.
Strelka 5 doesnt work, and Stockfish 2.1 loses on time in 10 sec+0 games.
Are short timed games (<= 10sec) normally done with or without ponder ?

And i notice engines send a ponder even if the option is disabled
Code:
Scid  : setoption name Ponder value false
Scid  : isready
Engine: readyok
Scid  : position startpos
Scid  : go wtime 10200 btime 10200 winc 0 binc 0
....
Engine: bestmove e2e4 ponder e7e5



BTW - for xboard, all i'm doing is issuing "easy" and "hard" but i suppose there is more to it than this ?
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ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:22 pm
      Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:08 am
      Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:34 am
            Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:42 am
                  Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:54 am
                        Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:05 pm
                              Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:15 pm
                              Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:17 pm
                                    Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Ignacio Garcia Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:22 pm
      Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:42 am
            Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:48 am
                  Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:58 am
                        Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:07 pm
                              Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:41 pm
                                    Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:01 pm
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                                                Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:39 pm
                                                      Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:49 pm
                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Sat Mar 10, 2012 6:36 am
                                                Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Sat Mar 10, 2012 6:41 am
                                                      Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:10 am
                                                Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:08 am
                                                      Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:11 am
                                                      Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Sat Mar 10, 2012 8:49 am
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                                                                  Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Sat Mar 10, 2012 12:44 pm
                                                                        Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:01 pm
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                                                                                    Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:18 am
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                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:55 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:08 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:07 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:17 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:25 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:54 pm
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                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:41 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:15 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:58 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:33 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:38 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Mon Jan 07, 2013 3:25 pm
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                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:19 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:37 pm
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                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:51 pm
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