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Dann Corbit
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Re: New homepage for ChestUCI

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F.Huber wrote:
Dann Corbit wrote: I mean to use the exact settings found in the database comment.
Well, that's exactly what I tried to explain to you in my last answer -
ChestUCI is using these settings from the database!

Example - the following line is in the database:
4b1n1/5p2/3B4/2PkN1P1/3Np2P/P3P3/pP3K2/8 w - - bm #11; 00:00 @ C2/R1/K2/P5/X14;

Now if you start ChestUCI with this position in "SearchMode=Special", then it automatically sets all parameters to the given values:
it searches for #11 (even if SearchDepth=10 is adjusted), and it uses C2/R1/K2/P5/X14, of course only if you have switched these options OFF, i.e. their values must be set to 0 (but that are the usual default settings).
BTW, you can even see that ChestUCI uses these values, because it displays the following info messages when started:

FEN: 4b1n1/5p2/3B4/2PkN1P1/3Np2P/P3P3/pP3K2/8 w - - (10+6)
Position-Analysis: C0/R0/K1/P4/X13 W:9/32

Parameters found in Database: #11; 00:00 @ C2/R1/K2/P5/X14;
Search for Special-Mate [C2/R1/K2/P5/X14] in 11 ... (Hash=30MB)


So I don't know what else you would expect.
Sometimes it prints something a little different than the settings. So I thought that it does not always use them.
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Re: New homepage for ChestUCI

Post by F.Huber »

Dann Corbit wrote: Sometimes it prints something a little different than the settings. So I thought that it does not always use them.
That can only happen if you have set any of these parameters manually to a non-zero value (i.e. if you intentionally want to try whether a different (smaller) value would work too).