Introducing ucitap and ucinetwork tools

[cpeters]

PS: That will not work if using En Croissant. This method does however.

Hello!

Yes, I encountered problems (I think UCI-related) in En Croissant and the its fork, too:

Installing an emulated dedicated machine (openend a pipe through mame which works with almost everything, foremost cutechess(-cli)) fails in the sense that It got recognised and the emulator is initialized but it doesn't compute from there on (match against me).
But I think the fault is on my side (stupidity).


However:

In Pawn-Appetit adding remote-engines works (should be applicable to en croissant)

in engines.json:

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    {
        "type": "local",
        "version": "",
        "name": "Rodent-remote",
        "path": "/home/cp/schach/rod-remote/polyglot",
        "image": "",
        "loaded": true,
        "settings": []
    }

In the rod-remote directory lies a polyglot binary and a polyglot.ini:

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[PolyGlot]

EngineName = Rodent
EngineDir = /home/cp/schach/rod-remote
EngineCommand = ssh -p 5555 'cp@remote' /home/cp/schach/rodent-iv/builds/rodentIV
Log = true
LogFile = rodent.log
[Engine]

Works... but cumbersome

But the chessbase-enthusiasts should test the ucinetwork tools!
I think it should be neat on a windows laptop and useful.


greetings

[jshriver]

an emulated dedicated machine (openend a pipe through mame

Off topic, but you have me curious. What are you using Mame for? I know it has emulation outside the arcade games it's known for but you're using it to play a uci version of Rodent? The whole process here is perplexing me in a curious way.

[cpeters]

Hello Josh!

I don't know whether I understood your question.

I used to do this:
viewtopic.php?t=76820&start=20

With mame, yes.

Nowadays I just offer a bot on LiChess:
https://lichess.org/@/Brettcomputer

Works just the same. Rarely - to get an idea about the strength elowise of an weakened engine - I set up matches between an emulated dedicated machine and an (modern) engine whithin cutechess.
The windows-people have got Franz Hubers CB-EMU-package (which uses mame also), for the unixlike systems on has just vanilla MAME (or a compiled fraction of this program with just the chess-related drivers and their dependencies included) or look (mount the iso) into the releases of pico-chess.
The difference is, that Franz offers a massive amount of playable machines whereas...

If you're interested in playing against emulated hardware on you mobile, you might want to install mame (it's on the google playstore) on your android-phone. For iOS I compiled and installed on my iphone 'mame4ios' in the past (no need to do that anymore, because it got accepted in the apple-store): one could load the chess-computers just fine there also, but playing with them is awkward, as there is currently no such thing as a 'touch ui' for these systems like on android: I had to map the coordinates to a translucent keyboard to enter some moves - nahhh.

greetings