Gabriele Stilli wrote:
Hi!
>> My naked question: Ho do I set up Crafty (and phalanx) to play against?
>
> Apparently, you can only play a serious game against an UCI engine, which
> Crafty
> is not.
Right.
> Also, you can only play a tactical game against Phalanx (and only the modified
> version bundled with Scid), with Toga2 acting as an observer and trainer.
Perfectly right again.
>> Since crafty and phalanx are not UCI machines, it seems, the answer is
>> polyglot. Isn't it?
>
> No. As you have also said, Polyglot is an UCI adapter, that allows you to
> connect an UCI engine to an xboard interface, and it cannot be used the other
> way round.
Exactly. Plus: to the best of my knowledge there is no adaptor for the
other way round, ie. to improve an xboard engine to a UCI one.
> So, Im afraid there's currently no way to do what you want. I hope I'm
> mistaken,
> though, and that there be a workaround I don't know of :-)
I fear you're not mistaken. Playing a game against Crafty is actually
not possible. Neither a serious nor a tactical game.
Fernando, is there a special feature in crafty why you want to use this
engine explicitly or could we find a solution using an UCI engine of
equivalent features?
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