[Scid-users] UCI analysis changes

[Steven <ste...@ya...>]

One thing Scid does slightly wrong is it's reliance on "position fen"


    "position fen $analysis(fen$n)"

to do UCI engine analysis. Pascal wrote all the UCI code, but cut a few corners.
The obvious problem is, the engine has no way to know if it's next move will immediately lead
to a draw when in a strong position, which is often a real issue in endgames - making Scid's analysis
a *little* meandering and useless. Perhaps there are other problems too.

Anyway, the correct way is to use the "position startpos moves" command.


   "position $analysis(startpos$n) moves $analysis(movelist$n)"

I've committed this code to Scid vs. PC 

   http://scidvspc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/scidvspc?view=revision&revision=1361

Are you interested Fulvio ??  I think it's all working ok.

I havent implemented "ucinewgame" though. This seems to be an *optional*
UCI command that the gui sends to indicate when moving to a totally new game.
Are any engines not working when you switch between databases ?


Steve