Krzysztof Grzelak wrote:Thank you very much Graham. Please write as you know what is the difference in the program between WB1 and WB2. I ask because I installed in the engine Santana 2.0.6 and Sjakk 2.2 somehow these engines would not work in the program. Maybe I did something wrong in the program.
Sjakk 2.2 - install as UCI, but you have to save without being able to change any parameters.
I've not tried the other engine yet, as it's not yet strong enough for my Amateur Series.
Most winboard engines are wb2.
I've only come across a couple that need to be installed as wb1. From memory Monik was one of them.
hgm wrote:Well, if they differ, one of the two must be wrong. It should not be difficult to figure out which of the two. There are hundreds of engines that do it right. I use neither Houdini nor Stockfish, so I wouldn't know.
There is a clear standard for how scores should be reported, however (centiPawn), both in WB protocol and UCI. If engines report scores that should be multiplied by a fixed factor to be meaningfully compared with other engine scores, these engines are non-compliant, and should be fixed. Encouraging such non-compliance by letting the GUI fix it on an engine by engine basis is helping to create chaos.
If there are users that rather see the score in full Pawn units, or milliQueens, or 1/256 Pawns, then doing that conversion for all engines alike would be a GUI task. But users should not be bothered calibrating individual engines.
I do not think that it is clear what is the meaning of a pawn with all the positional bonuses that programs have in their evaluation for mobility passed pawns and other things.
difference in a score between programs can be not because of different material evaluation but because of different positional evaluation.
The side that has material advantage often has more passed pawns or better mobility so practically the evaluation may be bigger than the material difference.
Thank you very much for your answers Matthias. I have a question. Is it possible to play a match on two separate computers without using the Internet. And like so please write how to do it.
Krzysztof Grzelak wrote:Thank you very much for your answers Matthias. I have a question. Is it possible to play a match on two separate computers without using the Internet. And like so please write how to do it.
It thanks for answer Matthias. I have such a hard question. What to do to be shown ECO during the tournament, despite being the tournament is played without any book debuts. Or such thing is possible in programme ChessGUI.
