Cutechess-cli and Ponder

[Brunetti]

Hi all, I wonder why cutechess-cli 1.2.0 issues this message:

Warning: Stockfish 6 64-bit doesn't have option Ponder

for whatever engine.I launch the match with these parameters:

cutechess-cli -engine conf="Stockfish 6 64-bit" -engine conf="Nirvanachess 2.4 64-bit" -each tc=60+1 option.Threads=1 option.Hash=256 option.Ponder=false -pgnout "cuteswiss.pgn" -site "Intel Xeon W3530@2.8GHz" -event "CuteSwiss" -openings file="openings.pgn" order="random" -recover -srand 508415400 -draw movenumber=30 movecount=12 score=15 -resign movecount=12 score=600 twosided=true

Obviously the engines have the ponder option. The same happens writing option.Ponder="false". Anyone has had the same issue?

Thanx,
Alex

[Ferdy]

That is cutechess-cli's way of handling ponder option.

Just use -each ponder tc=60+1 ...

[Brunetti]

Just use -each ponder tc=60+1 ...

Right, it's disabled by default, very good. So, probably the "option name Ponder" is parsed off before creating a list of valid options.


Thanx,
Alex

[AndrewGrant]

I think having the UCI interface report a "Ponder" option is really just a way of telling the GUI that you will accept go ponder commands. Does cutechess even set the Ponder option when you enable pondering in the GUI or via options in the cli?

[Brunetti]

Does cutechess even set the Ponder option when you enable pondering in the GUI or via options in the cli?

I never used the GUI. I just tested both scenarios, with and without ponder in the options, and cli actually sends "setoption name Ponder value true" and "false", and in the first case "go ponder..." at the right time.


Alex