Fritz GUI: impossible playing rated games with UCI engines.

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robotz
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Fritz GUI: impossible playing rated games with UCI engines.

Post by robotz »

It was found that when you try to play a rated game in Fritz-ChessBase GUI using a UCI engine, after selected the playing strenght the program disables internally the UCI engine and uses its internal engine to make the moves.
So even if you think you are using your UCI engine, really you are playing against the program's engine.
This was found using the log capability in Deuterium engine:

<< Open log-093309Sun06Jul2014.txt for logging
>> setoption name UCI_LimitStrength value true
>> setoption name UCI_Elo value 2400
>> setoption name UCI_LimitStrength value false
>> quit
<< Closing log file log-093309Sun06Jul2014.txt

I hope that ChessBase fix this 'bug'.