[Scidvspc-users] Analysis Engine interface changes.

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

Just a little update about the state of the computer tournament and engine analysis code.

Last week i overhauled the UCI and Xboard code to make the Computer Tournament better. ... Basically i removed the "set position from fen" code and replaced it with the proper interfaces most uci engines expect: "set position and give movelist". Xboard code has also been changed alot. Anyway - the tournament feature should work better. In my testing Ivanhoe and Komodo are much stronger than before ;>

And today i've spent all afternoon removing a silly +1 offset between two data structures (the engine listbox which starts at 0 and the Analysis Widget toplevels which started at 1). There was lots of changes required in tactical game.

So maybe some minor chess engine features will be broken or have bugs in subversion. People are welcome to test the Analysis Engines , Tactical Game, Serious Game and Tournmanet features - which are hopefully working fine, but some lesser features using analysis engines like "Mate in N puzzles" havent been tested yet though should get done shortly. Windows users can use the make-scidgui.bat script to make a new "scid.gui".

Anyway...  my long term goals are to make a "Play against Stockfish" feature (Stockfish 2.1 has strength settings), probably by merging the Tactical game interface to Serious game... so here's hoping i find the time for it.

Steven