[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:

Good Morning!

 >>From UCI protocol, one can read :
 > ==========================================================
[...]
 > ==========================================================
 > This last sentence made me ignore unknown options starting
 > with UCI_*

This is ok according to the docs of course. In this sense it
was not a "bug" reported. But it seems unpractical. Acutally
I'd almost think about a bug in Shredders UCI implementation
if it weren't for Shredder whos author actually made the
standard. (Why I also asked Stefan what's going on here.)

 > This can easily be inserted again.

Of course. The point is a "how" which I do not see yet,
cause as the docs state most of them are fixed valued. Of
particular interest are IMHO the "limit strength" options
and the ShredderBases (in case they are supported).
Currently I'm not clear about the point wether these options
just lack in the docs in the section about exceptions or
wether limiting the strength and adding support for
ShredderBases is essentially done by "normalised" option
names.

If the latter is the case I think it would be a very nice
option for the user to use "limit strength" also for
"serious games". One could weaken the engine to the users
knowledge so one has a good opponent but also stands a
chance. Fritz' "Friend Mode" is of that type, and I admit I
happend to like it. Additionally one could measure ones own
progress as the limit ELO should slowly go upwards with
time. Of course this requires an engine that supports the
limit strength feature. Probably not many free engines
currently do so, but IMHO it would be a valuable extension
if one has an engine at hand.

 > But I don't understand why you use Polyglot when UCI
 > engines are natively supported in Scid  ?

Of course I do not use PolyGlot for scid anymore, just for
xboard. And I stumbled across these options while upgrading
my "engine collection" as I found that Shredder and Fruit
use tons of options and my old approach of copy and paste to
get files for PolyGlot seemed no longer a good one. So I
wrote a script that parsed the options and while doing this
I found that shredderbases are also encoded in UCI_* so I
wondered what scid would do with it and it did as I
expected from the UCI-Docs: ignore it.

-- 

Kind regards,

Alexander Wagner
Universitaetsbibliothek Ilmenau
Langewiesener Str. 37
98693 Ilmenau
Tel.: 03677/69-4521 , Fax.: 03677/69-4617

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