Re: [Scidvspc-users] tscp stops on a tournament game after first cpature

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

Hmm.... Under Linux this engine seems buggy all round. The latest version
    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5047625/tscp-181e-ja.zip
doesn't work in analysis mode or tournament. I havent tested it with windows.

Typing "help" when running Toms Chess Engine shows a help line, and it seems to support the non-standard xboard commands "on" and "off", and while it says it supports "setboard" this feature seems buggy.

If i  disable setboard by commenting out this line in scid.gui
# if {[string match "*setboard=1*" $line]} { set analysis(has_setboard$n) 1 }
then it will play a game or two with per-move time controls, but often hangs too.

Anyway, to see what the engine is doing, have a look in the "Scid-vs-PC/bin/log" directory for it's log file. There is more information in ScidvsPC's help window under debugging analysis engines.

Sorry, but further debugging these less well known xboard engines is not a priority for me, and i think this engine is too buggy to warrant a special case. Perhaps if you disable setboard under windows it will work ?. Arena often has hacks like this for known buggy engines.

S.A.

[Event "Scid vs. PC"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2011.12.22"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Toms Chess Engine"]
[Black "Gnu Chess (xboard)"]
[Result "*"]
[Movetime "1"]

1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.Bb5 dxe4 4.Nc3 Bd7 5.Bxc6 Bxc6 6.d5 Bd7 7.Nxe4 Bf5 8.
Ng3 Bc8 9.c3 Nf6 10.Qa4+ Qd7 11.Qxa7 Rxa7 *

{Program halts}

[Event "Scid vs. PC"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2011.12.22"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Gnu Chess (xboard)"]
[Black "Toms Chess Engine"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Movetime "1"]

1.Nc3 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.Bf4 e6 4.e3 Bd7 5.Nf3 Bb4 6.Be2 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 Nf6 8.Rb1
Qc8 9.O-O Ne4 10.Qd3 O-O 11.c4 Rb8 12.Rfd1 a5 13.a3 a4 14.Ng5 Nxg5 15.Bxg5
Re8 16.Bf4 dxc4 17.Qxc4 e5 18.dxe5 Nxe5 19.Qd4 Ng6 20.Qxd7 Nxf4 21.Qxc8 
Nxe2+ 22.Kf1 Rexc8 23.Kxe2 b5 24.Rd7 Kf8 25.Rb4 Ke8 26.Rd5 c5 27.Re4+ Kf8 
28.Rd7 Re8 29.Rh4 h6 30.Rf4 Re7 31.Rd5 Rc7 32.c3 Ke7 33.Re4+ Kf6 34.Kf3 
Rb6 35.c4 b4 36.axb4 cxb4 37.c5 Rb5 38.Rd6+ Kg5 39.h4+ Kh5 40.Re5+ f5 41.
Rxf5+ g5 42.g4+ Kxh4 43.Rxh6# 1-0


From: Emilio Díaz <uc...@ya...>
Subject: [Scidvspc-users] tscp stops on a tournament game after first cpature
To: "sci...@li..." <sci...@li...>
Received: Thursday, 22 December, 2011, 3:48 AM

Hi all
First of all thanks a lot for all the new work done on this project, it looks great.
I've trying to test Tom's simple chess program (tscp) in scidvspc, but so far I haven't got it to finish a full game.
I'm using scidvspc 4.6, compiled from the svn repositories. I can add tscp (downloaded from http://www.tckerrigan.com/Chess/TSCP/Community/attachments/tscp-181d-ja.zip) as an xboard engine, and can use it to analyze any fen position, but when I setup a game against another engine, (say Toga), after 1.-e4, e5 2.-d4 ed5, the tscp (playing withe) just stops playing. When I launch scidvspc from the command line I don't get any extra info, so I don't have any idea what can be going wrong. 
On the other hand, in the arena
 software I can use tscp on an engine match without any problem.
Has anybody been succesful with this engine over scidvspc?
Thanks in advance
Emilio
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