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Date: 28 Apr 2006 13:30:29
From: 39N 95W
Subject: Scid question about importing FEN positions
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I guess this might really be an engine question, but when I copy a FEN notation into Scid, the Scidlet engine can't do any analysis - it says that the starting position is non-standard and therefore it can't do any analysis. So, is there a Scid compatable engine that will do the analysis, or are there tools to generate bogus moves to yield a certain position? Any and all help appreciated. -gk- ======================================================================== "The creative act is not the province of remote oracles or rarefied geniuses but a transparent process that is open to everyone." -Greg Kot in Wilco Learning How To Die-
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Date: 29 Apr 2006 21:29:00
From: Simon Waters
Subject: Re: Scid question about importing FEN positions
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:30:29 -0500, 39N 95W wrote: > I guess this might really be an engine question, but when I copy a FEN > notation into Scid, the Scidlet engine can't do any analysis - it says that > the starting position is non-standard and therefore it can't do any > analysis. So, is there a Scid compatable engine that will do the analysis, > or are there tools to generate bogus moves to yield a certain position? GNU Chess seems happy to analyse from a non-standard position with SCID. It also starts analysing straight away rather than waiting for a move to be made. When you add "gnuchess" you want the parameter "--xboard" or "-x" in the engine definition to make it use the Winboard protocol. I've sometimes seem the analysis and board get out of sync, if you figure out why this happens let me know.
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Date: 23 May 2006 15:25:43
From: Alexander Wagner
Subject: Re: Scid question about importing FEN positions
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On 2006-04-29, Simon Waters <[email protected] > wrote: Hi! >> I guess this might really be an engine question, but when >> I copy a FEN notation into Scid, the Scidlet engine can't >> do any analysis - it says that the starting position is >> non-standard and therefore it can't do any analysis. So, >> is there a Scid compatable engine that will do the >> analysis, or are there tools to generate bogus moves to >> yield a certain position? > > GNU Chess seems happy to analyse from a non-standard > position with SCID. Maybe you will want to use a stronger engine though. Crafty comes to mind as a free engine. For others like Fruit or TogaII you'll need PolyGlot or the like. Setup is streight forward, you'll find some information on this e.g. here: http://theorie.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~arwagner/chess/shredder.html Yes, I know it deals with Shredder. But form the setup using Polyglot its the same for Fruit or Toga or whatever, all of them are UCI engines. Included on the page is also a patch against Polyglot 1.3 (did not have the time yet to implement it on 1.4) to get the scoring correctly in scid. That is if you annotate a game automagically to get a score graph you'll want to have this patched version. > I've sometimes seem the analysis and board get out of > sync, if you figure out why this happens let me know. Never experienced these problems with either crafty or any of the aforementioned engines. I'd guess that gnuchess is just thinking and not processing the interrupt signal from scid properly. Anyway, for analysing you'll probably really want a stronger engine anyway. Staying free I'd suggest Crafty, Fruit, Toga. Shredder is also very nice (but not free of course). -- Kind regards, Alexander Wagner
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