Running chess engine via command window only

[whittenizer]

Yes, this is what I found earlier which let me to think I'm not supplying enough information. Thanks much for your reply.

[whittenizer]

By simply suppying movetime it performs so much better. Theres still some other things I can set to make it even better. Thanks again.

[tpetzke]

two additional hints

when you use the Arena Engine Debug Window you see exactly the commands that arena sends to he engine, so you can just copy them

for long running games the
"position startpos moves ..." command might not fit in the input buffer in console mode anymore (256 char limit), so you might miss the last moves because they are pruned away by copy & paste

Thomas...

[whittenizer]

Very nice. I'll have to check that out for sure. THanks much

[Don]

I think I may have not supplied enough information. I'm setting the fen as in:

"position fen somefentext" then "go". I just found out there's alot more things that can go with the "go" command. Ill play around with those and see what I get.

Thanks for your input.

That is at least part of your problem. If you don't send the moves you deprive the engine of the game history and that will have an impact on the strength.