Fritz 5.32 Engines

[menniepals]

I downloaded Fritz 5.32 from the site offering prodeo. Along with it, I also downloaded chessbase prepared winboard engines from the wayback machine. I saw there was a winboard adapter, I guess from chessbase to get winboard engines working on the cb gui, downloaded that but found out the engines were playing extremely weak. Is there a better winboard adapter to fix this?

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

Hello menniepals,

Fritz 5 32-bit is 20 years old http://freechess.50webs.com/fritz.html

cf. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... jVtUDVTUG8 with old ChessBase engines and http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=c ... pport_list for general informations >ChessBase, Adapters (Primary Tools)

French website with a lot of WB2UCI configurations http://americanfoot.free.fr/echecs/suisse/fichiers.htm

Regards,
Norbert

[menniepals]

Thank you a lot. It is very old. I love to play around with the engines.

[menniepals]

I think the GUI remains to be really lovely. But the winboard adapters made the engines very weak.

[Graham Banks]

I think the GUI remains to be really lovely. But the winboard adapters made the engines very weak.

Shouldn't make any difference.

[Guenther]

I think the GUI remains to be really lovely. But the winboard adapters made the engines very weak.

Shouldn't make any difference.

Oh, they make a big difference, the old CB WB-adapters were very buggy and there were dozens of posts about their missbehaviour.
(and as in Shredder the problems were never fixed! so WB programs appeared to be weaker than in reality - not nice)
E.g. one major issue (besides others!) was always sending 'new' and clearing hash for each move (BTW the Shredder winboard adapter wasn't any better).
This was general knowledge 15-20 years ago.

All of this was one reason, why Odd Gunnar Malins' WB2UCI came to life at all.

[Graham Banks]

I think the GUI remains to be really lovely. But the winboard adapters made the engines very weak.

Shouldn't make any difference.

Oh, they make a big difference, the old CB WB-adapters were very buggy and there were dozens of posts about their missbehaviour.
(and as in Shredder the problems were never fixed! so WB programs appeared to be weaker than in reality - not nice)
E.g. one major issue (besides others!) was always sending 'new' and clearing hash for each move (BTW the Shredder winboard adapter wasn't any better).
This was general knowledge 15-20 years ago.

All of this was one reason, why Odd Gunnar Malins' WB2UCI came to life at all.

Okay. I thought he was talking about wb2uci adapters.