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Date: 29 Jun 2008 10:51:24
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Subject: Tool to capture UCI chess engine exchanges?
I want to write a UCI chess engine that plays badly enough for me to
beat it, and then improve it as my game improves (this is mostly for
fun, I know that many already exist). The UCI documentation I've
found on the net is pretty terse, and it would help a lot if I could
read a log of the actual communication between Fritz and a UCI engine
I've already installed. I know they communicate by stdin and stdout,
using readable English words, but I don't know how to capture it --- I
looked at the SysInternals suite and they have monitors for registry
and file access, but as far as I can tell they don't show the actual
strings exchanged, or monitor stdin and stdout.

Does anyone know of a tool, preferably free, that does this? Thanks.




 
Date: 17 Jul 2008 06:59:11
From: Simon Krahnke
Subject: Re: Tool to capture UCI chess engine exchanges?
* <[email protected] > (2008-06-29) schrieb:

> I want to write a UCI chess engine that plays badly enough for me to
> beat it, and then improve it as my game improves (this is mostly for
> fun, I know that many already exist). The UCI documentation I've
> found on the net is pretty terse, and it would help a lot if I could
> read a log of the actual communication between Fritz and a UCI engine
> I've already installed. I know they communicate by stdin and stdout,
> using readable English words, but I don't know how to capture it --- I
> looked at the SysInternals suite and they have monitors for registry
> and file access, but as far as I can tell they don't show the actual
> strings exchanged, or monitor stdin and stdout.

I found the documentation readable enough to implement it.

Just use Arena instead of Fritz, is has a debug window (under Engines)
in which you can see the whole communication, copy it to clipboard and
send your own commands to the engine.

mfg, simon .... l


 
Date: 29 Jun 2008 17:15:28
From:
Subject: Re: Tool to capture UCI chess engine exchanges?
On Jun 29, 2:16 pm, "Odd Gunnar Malin" <[email protected] > wrote:

>
> You could try InBetween found on this pagehttp://utilities.sjakk.biz/.
> You can see the communication and/or capture it to a logfile.
>
> Odd Gunnar


Thank you very much, I am getting good captures with this tool.



 
Date: 29 Jun 2008 23:16:43
From: Odd Gunnar Malin
Subject: Re: Tool to capture UCI chess engine exchanges?
<[email protected] > skrev i melding
news:[email protected]...
>I want to write a UCI chess engine that plays badly enough for me to
> beat it, and then improve it as my game improves (this is mostly for
> fun, I know that many already exist). The UCI documentation I've
> found on the net is pretty terse, and it would help a lot if I could
> read a log of the actual communication between Fritz and a UCI engine
> I've already installed. I know they communicate by stdin and stdout,
> using readable English words, but I don't know how to capture it --- I
> looked at the SysInternals suite and they have monitors for registry
> and file access, but as far as I can tell they don't show the actual
> strings exchanged, or monitor stdin and stdout.
>
> Does anyone know of a tool, preferably free, that does this? Thanks.

You could try InBetween found on this page http://utilities.sjakk.biz/ .
You can see the communication and/or capture it to a logfile.

Odd Gunnar