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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:16:52 +0100 Alexander Wagner <a.wag...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote: > Roy Brunjes wrote: > > Hi! > > > I checked with the Naum4 author and he says this is a bug > > in SCID -- he says SCID does not sent the 'uci' command to > > the engine when starting a serious game... > > > > Can you confirm and if so, can a fix be developed? > > To shed some light on the issue, I tried the free Naum > available. I've to run it through wine as I've no windwos, Do you run scid and naum under wine or only the engine? In the second case, could you share your setup? Thx Detlef > and I may add that everything works fine with Shredder which > I consider the reference implementation for UCI as it is > just the engine of the inventor of UCI. > > Here's what happens if you start a serious game with naum: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Naum 2.0 > Copyright (C) 2003-2006 Aleksandar Naumov > > Memory Usage: > Transposition Table: 3136 KB > Pawn Hash : 1120 KB > Endgame Tablebase : 0 MB > > EGTB Status: Not set yet by UCI > > id name Naum 2.0 > id author Aleksandar Naumov > option name Hash type spin default 4 min 1 max 256 > option name NalimovPath type string default > option name NalimovCache type spin default 2 min 1 max 64 > option name Ponder type check default false > option name OwnBook type check default true > option name MultiPV type spin default 1 min 1 max 5 > option name UCI_Opponent type string > option name EnableBookLearning type check default true > option name CanResign type check default true > uciok > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > As you can see, naum answers with its options and "uciok". > Now, an UCI engine only gives you the options if you sent > uci. uciok is sent back to tell the GUI that uci > initialization has completed and the options list is > completed AND that uci was sent (calling for uci > initialization). From this point the authors response can > not be true. Simply, if it were true naum would not follow > uci protocol. The he could hardly blame Scid for this ;) > > Now if I move a4 (a move that is not in the book), naum even > starts calculating, and after a while, considering who has > removed my brains, answers e7e5. I can move on. Everything > seems fine here. > > Anyway, no bug in Scid, the author should check this on his > side of the board if your problem persists ;) BTW: my wine > is the usual debian stable 0.9.25. Nothing special. > > For your problem: Did you check the "UCI" checkbox? Can you > configure the UCI options properly? Can you use naum for > analysis? Additionally, as I guess you're running some unix > from your missing libtk-img, I configured the wine engine > as: > > Command : /usr/bin/wine > Parameter: /tmp/naum/naum.exe > > Additionally, naum seems to use some cfg file. I tried to > issue "xboard" to the engine, which results in an xboard > response. I guess it is used for this mode. Anyway, does the > engine work (for analysis e.g.) in xboard mode? > > -- > > Kind regards, / War is Peace. > | Freedom is Slavery. > Alexander Wagner | Ignorance is Strength. > | > | Theory : G. Orwell, "1984" > / In practice: USA, since 2001 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklu7lMACgkQ0g+Q+yDyuZgrQgCgp3y0kP9ZYZPi8ZkVgxkpVHlt t/UAn1rTOEa5YQa2GUpS7LmSKLEMXdiE =be/j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
