Re: [Scid-users] playing in scid against crafty

2009-08-24 Thread Pascal Georges
2009/8/20, Fernando Cristancho : > Hi! > > I see, the discussion goes already far beyond my humble purposes. Thanks > for > the answers. > > > Fernando, is there a special feature in crafty why you want to use this >> engine explicitly or could we find a solution using an UCI engine of >> equivalen

Re: [Scid-users] playing in scid against crafty

2009-08-21 Thread Fernando Cristancho
Boy! This is real fun. Just out of simple communication. How many things I learnt (was taught) in one shot? Why dindn't I ask before! I will have either to read more carefully the readme.first files or to ask more often... or both. Ihr seid so nett gewesen. Danke vielmals. I wish all of you a nic

Re: [Scid-users] playing in scid against crafty

2009-08-20 Thread Alexander Wagner
Fernando Cristancho wrote: Hi! > I see, the discussion goes already far beyond my humble > purposes. Thanks for the answers. That happens sometimes :) >> Fernando, is there a special feature in crafty why >> you want to use this engine explicitly or could we >> find a solution using

Re: [Scid-users] playing in scid against crafty

2009-08-20 Thread Volker Pittlik
Am Donnerstag, den 20.08.2009, 06:23 -0500 schrieb Fernando Cristancho: ... > Although I was not so hopeful since you have to set the skill level > and then compile. Here I set the -DSKILL option at compile time and then choose the skill level at run time. Regards Volker Pittlik > -

[Scid-users] playing in scid against crafty

2009-08-20 Thread Fernando Cristancho
Hi! I see, the discussion goes already far beyond my humble purposes. Thanks for the answers. Fernando, is there a special feature in crafty why you want to use this > engine explicitly or could we find a solution using an UCI engine of > equivalent features? > There are two features that I lik

Re: [Scid-users] playing in scid against crafty

2009-08-18 Thread Volker Pittlik
Alexander Wagner wrote: ... > What do you call your "testing group"? The other engines I test against. Stockfish, Fruit, Crafty and so on. ... > > BTW: Did you get ProDeo running on Linux? I admit that I > never really succeeded with the setup. (In case we could > discuss this in PM, if you p

Re: [Scid-users] playing in scid against crafty

2009-08-18 Thread Alexander Wagner
Volker Pittlik wrote: Hi! >> A similar option is available in some UCI engines. There the >> switch in question is called UCI_LimitStrength (this one has >> to be set to "true") and UCI_Elo where you can set the >> ELO-level the engine tries to simulate. >> > > I know. But have you ever tried it

Re: [Scid-users] playing in scid against crafty

2009-08-17 Thread Volker Pittlik
Am Montag, den 17.08.2009, 21:45 +0200 schrieb Alexander Wagner: > ... > A similar option is available in some UCI engines. There the > switch in question is called UCI_LimitStrength (this one has > to be set to "true") and UCI_Elo where you can set the > ELO-level the engine tries to simulate. >

Re: [Scid-users] playing in scid against crafty

2009-08-17 Thread Alexander Wagner
Volker Pittlik wrote: Hi! >> Fernando, is there a special feature in crafty why you >> want to use this engine explicitly or could we find a >> solution using an UCI engine of equivalent features? > > I'm not Fernando but for me it is the "skill" feature > crafty offers. Ah! This one is new to

Re: [Scid-users] playing in scid against crafty

2009-08-17 Thread Volker Pittlik
Am Montag, den 17.08.2009, 16:37 +0200 schrieb Alexander Wagner: > ... > Fernando, is there a special feature in crafty why you want to use this > engine explicitly or could we find a solution using an UCI engine of > equivalent features? I'm not Fernando but for me it is the "skill" feature c

Re: [Scid-users] playing in scid against crafty

2009-08-17 Thread Alexander Wagner
Gabriele Stilli wrote: Hi! >> My naked question: Ho do I set up Crafty (and phalanx) to play against? > > Apparently, you can only play a serious game against an UCI engine, which > Crafty > is not. Right. > Also, you can only play a tactical game against Phalanx (and only the modified > vers

Re: [Scid-users] playing in scid against crafty

2009-08-15 Thread Gabriele Stilli
Fernando Cristancho writes: > My naked question: Ho do I set up Crafty (and phalanx) to play against? Apparently, you can only play a serious game against an UCI engine, which Crafty is not. Also, you can only play a tactical game against Phalanx (and only the modified version bundled with Scid

[Scid-users] playing in scid against crafty

2009-08-14 Thread Fernando Cristancho
Sorry, my previous message went out accidentally (too many "inteligent keys" in the keyboard. I complete the message... Hello everyone, sorry for bringing up a topic that was recently discussed and apparently should already have be understood. But I did not get any clue. My naked question: Ho d

[Scid-users] playing in scid against crafty

2009-08-14 Thread Fernando Cristancho
Hello everyone, sorry for bringing up a topic that was recently discussed and apparently should already have be understood. But I did not get any clue. My naked question: Ho do I set up Crafty (and phalanx) to play against? Since crafty and phalanx are not UCI machines, it seems, the answer is pol