I doubt this is possible anymore given that Ed is not working on Prodeo
anymore. Prodeo is closed source.
What is surprising is that prodeo works fine with Chessbase.
Shiv
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From: Pascal Georges <pascal.georg...@free.fr>
Cc: scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Sun, November 8, 2009 1:29:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Scid-users] Prodeo in Scid
For me the only acceptable solution is that Prodeo is patched to comply to UCI
standard.
Pascal
2009/11/8 shiv shivaji <shivaji...@yahoo.com>
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).
>
>
>
>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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