For me the only acceptable solution is that Prodeo is patched to comply to
UCI standard.
Pascal
2009/11/8 shiv shivaji <[email protected]>
> The talkchess.com community reported a problem with Prodeo and Scid.
> I did some debugging and found out that there are 2 engine issues with
> Prodeo and Scid
>
> Problem #1: Prodeo does not seem to analyze according to the UCI
> specifications.
> On the command line I tried:
> uci
> isready
> position fen rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
> go ponder infinite
>
> and I get from Prodeo 1.2: info depth 1 score 1
>
> Trying the above commands with a few other engines, I see actual analysis
> being displayed. The problem is that Prodeo does NOT analyze on "go ponder
> infinite" but instead does analysis only on "go infinite".
>
> Problem #2:
> Even with "go infinite", prodeo sometimes reports "info depth 1 score 1"
> and scid expects score cp ..
>
> Prodeo returns the score cp line most of the time, but the score 1 confuses
> scid (which can be easily configured to be ignored by scid).
> <http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30469#top>
>
> So, in order to patch scid, we could do one of the following:
>
> 1. Add special case for engine prodeo where scid issues "go infinite"
> instead of "go ponder infinite"
> 2. Add a dialogue where the command "go ponder infinite" can be specially
> configured by engine.
>
> I think option 2 is better, though it involves a small UI change.
>
> and we also need
> 1. Better handling of score from UCI engines, if cp is not provided in
> output, we should simply ignore line.
>
> Any thoughts from others?
>
> Thanks, Shiv
>
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