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HGM, I shall try to understand such stuff only when I return to chess.hgm wrote:Note that WB engines are supposed to understand HAha castling in FRC, and that there is no guarantee they will understand KQkq. At least, the latter is not what WinBoard would send them... (The specs urge them to understand both X-FEN and Shredder FEN, but people are often lazy, and won't care about protocol violations they can get away with.)
You can change an engine during a round robin or gauntlet, but not during a swiss.Krzysztof Grzelak wrote:What do the program during its movement did not show strange characters, and that the program was showing correctly TBs if engines do not use the TBs.
I have a question yet. Please write how you can best change the versions of the engine during the tournament. Let me give an example, I have the engine in version 2.0 and would like to change it to a newer version of the engine which the author released. Is it possible.
Sjakk 2.2 - install as UCI, but you have to save without being able to change any parameters.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.
- Invert SwissKrzysztof Grzelak wrote:Matthias I have such a request. Write what the following options in the program:
- Higher Grid Cells
- Lag - free Timing
- Parse UCI Junk
- Ask before Shutdown
- Ignore UCI result claims
- Invert Swiss
- 3-1-0 scoring
- S-B/BH>Elo
- Play out TB pos.
Sincerely
Krzysztof
Uri Blass wrote: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.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.
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.
- Lag - free TimingMatthias Gemuh wrote:- Invert SwissKrzysztof Grzelak wrote:Matthias I have such a request. Write what the following options in the program:
- Higher Grid Cells
- Lag - free Timing
- Parse UCI Junk
- Ask before Shutdown
- Ignore UCI result claims
- Invert Swiss
- 3-1-0 scoring
- S-B/BH>Elo
- Play out TB pos.
Sincerely
Krzysztof
weak pairings play first
- 3-1-0 scoring
win = 3 points, draw = 1
- S-B/BH>Elo
S-B/BH is more important than Elo in tie-breaks
- Play out TB pos.
GUI plays out till mate when engines reach TB position
noKrzysztof 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.
Krzysztof.
just enable ECO.Krzysztof Grzelak wrote: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.
