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Certabo UCI Driver by Lars Nowak

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Still can't add UCI to Fritz 17. I click ok and nothing happens.

Quote from richday82 on April 7, 2020, 3:40 pm

I can't get anything to work with Arena. Do you have any video tutorials? This becoming increasingly frustrating.

 

I have not and I think, it would not help.

You wrote, it runs on another PC with your first board? First of all, did you have installed the USB driver from the origin Certabo software on this PC? It is mandatory for the communication between the board and the PC.

Do you have Arena installed? If so, open the log window (Engines => Log-Window) before you try to start the engine. The window should give you many informations. And, as Pietro wrote, you could send me the log files of the engine.

 

So I started reading the directions to use the Certabo UCI driver and I get to this point:

"Directories
After the first start, the engine creates some directories:

Copy UCI engines into the engines subdirectory to use them in the configuration dialog."

Why not have config file where we can point to a directory of engines that already exists? The Certabo PC software does the same thing, it requires you to copy engines to a folder.

If you have Fritz or Arena installed then you already have a directory of engines, it would be nice if we could just use a config file to point an existing directory instead of having numerous copies of the same engines everywhere. Having a single directory for engines also makes it easier when new chess engines come out, just drop it in the one folder and all software\hardware using that directory is affected.

 

Hi,

this is the way how BearChess works but for an UCI engine, it is a little bit more difficult. First of all, to use an engine within the UCI engine is more an add on and not requiered to use them for a Certabo board.

A problem is rather how the different GUI's support the UCI options. Arena supports all of them, Fritz cannot handle pull down lists and Hiarcs cannot handle buttons. Now, what is the right and easy way to let the user come to the engine selection?

If I follow your suggestion, the user must first be able to select the path from where the engines are located. Hiarcs does not support buttons, e.g. to open a file dialog. So the user has to enter the path manually. Next, the user must now reopen the configration to view the engines.

Now, the next problems occurs. Some user will have many engines. How are you going to present the selection? Fritz does not supports pull down list. So, every engine must selectable, e.g. by a radio button. This can become very confusing, depending on how many engines exist.

So, just copying the desired engines into a separate folder still looks like a good compromise to me.

 

Lars

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