Why no thinker talk?

[ArmyBridge]

I wonder, why this bug only affected the match vs Junior7 ? the other match(vs Junior 10) was not affected?, anyway thanks maksim you give us a lot of fun with this games!!!
Regards

[CThinker]

This morning, I "crashed" into a friend's place just so I can test with their Fritz 7.

I ran 12 games between Fritz and Thinker (using WB2UCI). I did not see this problem in any of the games. It ended in 9.5 to 2.5.

Maksim, just in case you run Thinker with WB2UCI again in the future, I would really appreciate it if you would enable the logging option of WB2UCI, so that, if the problem surfaces, we could just take a look at the log file. Thanks!

I have a feeling that the engine is being sent a command that interrupts it before it even starts the search, and so it just returns the first move.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

This morning, I "crashed" into a friend's place just so I can test with their Fritz 7.

I ran 12 games between Fritz and Thinker (using WB2UCI). I did not see this problem in any of the games. It ended in 9.5 to 2.5.

Maksim, just in case you run Thinker with WB2UCI again in the future, I would really appreciate it if you would enable the logging option of WB2UCI, so that, if the problem surfaces, we could just take a look at the log file. Thanks!

I have a feeling that the engine is being sent a command that interrupts it before it even starts the search, and so it just returns the first move.

It's definitely a GUI problem,the engine is not the reason for this odd playing....

[maxchgr]

OK, Lance, I'm glad to hear it's not the engine. Maybe its a Fritz 11 GUI bug, I've no idea.
How do I enable that logging feature?

[Graham Banks]

This morning, I "crashed" into a friend's place just so I can test with their Fritz 7.

I ran 12 games between Fritz and Thinker (using WB2UCI). I did not see this problem in any of the games. It ended in 9.5 to 2.5.

Maksim, just in case you run Thinker with WB2UCI again in the future, I would really appreciate it if you would enable the logging option of WB2UCI, so that, if the problem surfaces, we could just take a look at the log file. Thanks!

I have a feeling that the engine is being sent a command that interrupts it before it even starts the search, and so it just returns the first move.

I've not seen any problems under the Fritz 10 GUI.

[CThinker]

OK, Lance, I'm glad to hear it's not the engine. Maybe its a Fritz 11 GUI bug, I've no idea.
How do I enable that logging feature?

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[ENGINE]
Name=Engine Name
Author=Author Name
Filename=WB2UCI.exe

[OPTIONS]
Program=Engine.exe
Logfile=true

You need to add the "Logfile=true" option to the .eng file.

All logs will then be written to the WB2UCI.log file. This has entries on what was sent and recevied from the engine and the UI.

Cheers!

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

This morning, I "crashed" into a friend's place just so I can test with their Fritz 7.

I ran 12 games between Fritz and Thinker (using WB2UCI). I did not see this problem in any of the games. It ended in 9.5 to 2.5.

Maksim, just in case you run Thinker with WB2UCI again in the future, I would really appreciate it if you would enable the logging option of WB2UCI, so that, if the problem surfaces, we could just take a look at the log file. Thanks!

I have a feeling that the engine is being sent a command that interrupts it before it even starts the search, and so it just returns the first move.

I've not seen any problems under the Fritz 10 GUI.

There are several versions of the WB2UCI adapters out there and some of them work probably,some give only headache

[maxchgr]

I used the setup posted at http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforu ... l?tid=3714

[CThinker]

I used the setup posted at http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforu ... l?tid=3714

You just need to edit the Wb2Uci.eng file that came with thinkeruci.zip that was posted.

It has this:

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[ENGINE]
Name=ThinkerUCI
Author=Lance Perkins, Canada
Filename=ThinkerUCI.exe

[OPTIONS]
Program="ThinkerWB.exe" 
Ponder=false

To add logging, it should be like this:

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[ENGINE]
Name=ThinkerUCI
Author=Lance Perkins, Canada
Filename=ThinkerUCI.exe

[OPTIONS]
Program="ThinkerWB.exe" 
Ponder=false
Logfile=true

Notice that the only addition is the "Logfile=true" line.

Cheers!

[maxchgr]

yea I got that Lance, thanks. I'll test it real soon. BTW I had changed that ponder to ponder=true and it is still that way although in the GUI i set ponder to off since it wasnt working for Thinker