Now prodeo UCI works in Scid. I debugged a few issues and showed a potential
fix to Pascal which is
now committed to Scid trunk. Thanks to Pascal for doing a quick commit.
The reason prodeo is an interesting engine is that it supports handicap play
(ie simulating a strong club player) etc. In addition, it does have human like
play (ok, closer to humans than some other engines). It is bassed on the rebel
code base. You can get prodeo 1.6 from
http://www.top-5000.nl/dl.htm?file=dl/ProDeo16.zip
Procedure to get prodeo to work in Scid:
1. Download the latest version of scid from CVS (NOT a released version yet).
Procedure to download scid from CVS is at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid/develop
2. In prodeo, modify wb2uci.eng: Set "Analyze" to "true",
"terminateHard" to "true", and "Protocol" to "2" (the last change is
optional).
3. Make the directory of the analysis engine under scid to the
prodeo directory. This is needed because prodeo calls prodeo.exe
(different from rebeluci.exe).
It now works fine for me under linux with wine. I think it should
work well for windows users as well (though I could not test this yet).
Prodeo does not support multi variation analysis or other complex uci
features though. I am interested to know if it works for everyone.
I have to add that the output prodeo sends is not fully UCI
compliant, but other GUIs such as chessbase/arena were more fault
tolerant than Scid.
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