+========1.4.67b=================
+- Disable "book learning". Polyglot saves learning information but does not use it itself, probably for a reason. I believe the booklearning concept of Polyglot is fundamentally broken. Learning information is engine specific so it should not be saved in the opening book (it might be saved elsewhere). There are other issues as well, such as copyright and the possibility of the proliferation of polluted books. Opening books can be improved with information from games by using the merge command. This is a form of off line learning which is probably much more effective since one has strict control over what kind of information is added to the book.
========1.4.66b=================
- Fix a printf 32 vs 64 bit format (crash) bug which manifested itself on windows.
========1.4.65b=================
polyglot perft [-fen fen] [-max-depth depth]
DESCRIPTION
- PolyGlot as adapter and book engine
+ PolyGlot as adapter and book engine
+
PolyGlot is a "UCI adapter". It connects a GUI interface (such as
XBoard, Winboard, Arena or Chessbase) to a UCI chess engine.
NOTE: Not all options are exported, only those that make sense in the
given mode.
- Book making utilities
+ Book making utilities
+
PolyGlot supports the "PolyGlot opening book format". This is the
defacto standard non-proprietary opening book format. It is fully
documented here
Due to the possibility of transpositions this is not a fool proof
method.
- Epd test mode
+ Epd test mode
+
In epd test mode, PolyGlot will search positions in an epd file and
record the number of times the right best move was found. The
arguments specify when to stop the search in any given position.
- Perft counts
+ Perft counts
+
A perft count is the number of legal move sequence in a given position
up to a given depth. PolyGlot can perform such perft counts. It is
however much slower than other more dedicated programs.
When invoked as
- polyglot make-book
+ polyglot make-book
+
PolyGlot supports the following options
-pgn (default: "book.pgn")
When invoked as
- polyglot merge-book
+ polyglot merge-book
+
PolyGlot supports the following options
-in1
When invoked as
- polyglot dump-book
+ polyglot dump-book
+
PolyGlot supports the following options
-bin (default: book.bin)
When invoked as
- polyglot info-book
+ polyglot info-book
+
PolyGlot supports the following options
-bin (default: book.bin)
When invoked as
- polyglot epd-test
+ polyglot epd-test
+
(possibly with a config file as first argument) PolyGlot supports
besides the generic options described above the following additional
options.
When invoked as
- polyglot perft
+ polyglot perft
+
PolyGlot supports the following options
-fen (default: starting position)
"Quoting" other characters in this way has no effect. In particular the
use of '\' as a path separator in windows should normally not affected.
- [PolyGlot] section
+ [PolyGlot] section
+
This section is used by PolyGlot only. The engine is unaware of these
options. The list of available options is detailed below.
move with the highest weight is selected.
BookLearn (default: false)
- Store learning information in the book (which must be writable).
- Currently no engine actually uses this information.
+ This is a noop.
BookDepth (default: 256)
Stop using the book after this number of moves.
If true then PolyGlot restricts the options it sends to those that
are potentially useful for WinBoard.
- Work arounds
+ Work arounds
+
Work arounds are identical to options except that they should be used
only when necessary. Their purpose is to try to hide problems with
various software (not just engines).
to the way kibitzing is implemented, KibitzMove is disabled in that
case.
- [Engine] section
+ [Engine] section
+
This section contains engine UCI options. PolyGlot does not understand
them, but sends the information to the engine at startup (converted to
UCI form). You can add any UCI option that makes sense to the engine
- 2010-12-31 POLYGLOT(6)
+ 2011-06-01 POLYGLOT(6)
void book_open(const char file_name[]) {
ASSERT(file_name!=NULL);
- if(option_get_bool(Option,"BookLearn")){
+ if(FALSE && option_get_bool(Option,"BookLearn")){
BookFile = fopen(file_name,"rb+");
}else{
BookFile = fopen(file_name,"rb");
#define PACKAGE_NAME "polyglot"
/* Define to the full name and version of this package. */
-#define PACKAGE_STRING "polyglot 1.4.65b"
+#define PACKAGE_STRING "polyglot 1.4.67b"
/* Define to the one symbol short name of this package. */
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "polyglot"
/* Define to the version of this package. */
-#define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.4.65b"
+#define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.4.67b"
/* Define to 1 if the C compiler supports function prototypes. */
#define PROTOTYPES 1
#define TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME 1
/* Version number of package */
-#define VERSION "1.4.65b"
+#define VERSION "1.4.67b"
/* Define like PROTOTYPES; this can be used by system headers. */
#define __PROTOTYPES 1
#! /bin/sh
# Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
-# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61 for polyglot 1.4.66b.
+# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61 for polyglot 1.4.67b.
#
# Report bugs to <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>.
#
# Identity of this package.
PACKAGE_NAME='polyglot'
PACKAGE_TARNAME='polyglot'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='1.4.66b'
-PACKAGE_STRING='polyglot 1.4.66b'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='1.4.67b'
+PACKAGE_STRING='polyglot 1.4.67b'
PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be'
ac_unique_file="mainloop.c"
# Omit some internal or obsolete options to make the list less imposing.
# This message is too long to be a string in the A/UX 3.1 sh.
cat <<_ACEOF
-\`configure' configures polyglot 1.4.66b to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+\`configure' configures polyglot 1.4.67b to adapt to many kinds of systems.
Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then
case $ac_init_help in
- short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of polyglot 1.4.66b:";;
+ short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of polyglot 1.4.67b:";;
esac
cat <<\_ACEOF
test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit $ac_status
if $ac_init_version; then
cat <<\_ACEOF
-polyglot configure 1.4.66b
+polyglot configure 1.4.67b
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61
Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
-It was created by polyglot $as_me 1.4.66b, which was
+It was created by polyglot $as_me 1.4.67b, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61. Invocation command line was
$ $0 $@
# Define the identity of the package.
PACKAGE='polyglot'
- VERSION='1.4.66b'
+ VERSION='1.4.67b'
cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
# report actual input values of CONFIG_FILES etc. instead of their
# values after options handling.
ac_log="
-This file was extended by polyglot $as_me 1.4.66b, which was
+This file was extended by polyglot $as_me 1.4.67b, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61. Invocation command line was
CONFIG_FILES = $CONFIG_FILES
_ACEOF
cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF
ac_cs_version="\\
-polyglot config.status 1.4.66b
+polyglot config.status 1.4.67b
configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61,
with options \\"`echo "$ac_configure_args" | sed 's/^ //; s/[\\""\`\$]/\\\\&/g'`\\"
# Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
AC_PREREQ(2.61)
-AC_INIT([polyglot], [1.4.66b], [michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be])
+AC_INIT([polyglot], [1.4.67b], [michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([mainloop.c])
AC_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h])
+polyglot (1.4.67b) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Disable "book learning". Polyglot saves learning information but does not use it itself, probably for a reason. I believe the booklearning concept of Polyglot is fundamentally broken. Learning information is engine specific so it should not be saved in the opening book (it might be saved elsewhere). There are other issues as well, such as copyright and the possibility of the proliferation of polluted books. Opening books can be improved with information from games by using the merge command. This is a form of off line learning which is probably much more effective since one has strict control over what kind of information is added to the book.
+
+
+ -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be> Fri, 8 Apr 2011 21:00:00 +0100
+
+polyglot (1.4.66b) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Fix a printf 32 vs 64 bit format (crash) bug which manifested itself on windows.
+
+ -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be> Fri, 8 Apr 2011 21:00:00 +0100
+
+polyglot (1.4.65b) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Bugfix: dump-book with -color black generated the file book_white.txt.
+
+ -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be> Fri, 1 Apr 2011 21:00:00 +0100
+
+polyglot (1.4.64b) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Reduce movetime in the implementation of the fixed time per move command (st), to account for differences in the wording of the protocols.
+
+ -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be> Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:00:00 +0100
+
+polyglot (1.4.63b) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Give ponder move as hint.
+ * Support for egtpath "gaviota" (this is a bit hacky now).
+
+ -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be> Sat, 4 Dec 2010 21:00:00 +0100
+
+polyglot (1.4.62b) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * StringSize was not everywhere the same in Polyglot. This could lead to a buffer overflow in case of very long PV's.
+
+ -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be> Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:00:00 +0100
+
+polyglot (1.4.61b) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * uci_isready replaced by uci_isready_sync. Polyglot should not send commands to the engine while it is syncing.
+
+ -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be> Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:00:00 +0100
+
+polyglot (1.4.60b) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * The result string after an illegal move now shows the actual attempted move.
+
+ -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be> Fri, 1 Oct 2010 21:00:00 +0100
+
+polyglot (1.4.59b) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Bugfix: the changes in 1.4.57b created a regression where the input buffer of polyglot could overflow with engines producing lots of output very fast.
+
+ -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be> Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:00:00 +0100
+
+polyglot (1.4.58b) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Implementation of BookDepth in UCI mode.
+ * Small corrections to the manpage.
+
+ -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be> Wed, 25 Apr 2010 21:00:00 +0100
+
+polyglot (1.4.57b) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * First attempt at killing engines that do not react to "quit".
+
+ -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be> Wed, 25 Apr 2010 21:00:00 +0100
+
polyglot (1.4.56b) unstable; urgency=low
* Better handling of non-existing engine command.
-polyglot_1.4.56b_i386.deb games extra
+polyglot_1.4.65b_amd64.deb games extra
// constants
-static const char * const Version = "1.4.66b";
+static const char * const Version = "1.4.67b";
static const char * const HelpMessage = "\
SYNTAX\n\
* polyglot [configfile] [-noini] [-ec engine] [-ed enginedirectory] [-en enginename] [-log true/false] [-lf logfile] [-pg <name>=<value>]* [-uci <name>=<value>]*\n\
-.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.1801 (Pod::Simple 3.05)
+.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.16 (Pod::Simple 3.05)
.\"
.\" Standard preamble:
.\" ========================================================================
+.de Sh \" Subsection heading
+.br
+.if t .Sp
+.ne 5
+.PP
+\fB\\$1\fR
+.PP
+..
.de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP)
.if t .sp .5v
.if n .sp
.el .ds Aq '
.\"
.\" If the F register is turned on, we'll generate index entries on stderr for
-.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index
+.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.Sh), items (.Ip), and index
.\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the
.\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion.
.ie \nF \{\
.\" ========================================================================
.\"
.IX Title "POLYGLOT 6"
-.TH POLYGLOT 6 "2010-12-31" "" ""
+.TH POLYGLOT 6 "2011-06-01" "" ""
.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
.if n .ad l
polyglot perft [\-fen fen] [\-max\-depth depth]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
-.SS "PolyGlot as adapter and book engine"
+.Sh "PolyGlot as adapter and book engine"
.IX Subsection "PolyGlot as adapter and book engine"
PolyGlot is a \*(L"\s-1UCI\s0 adapter\*(R". It connects a \s-1GUI\s0 interface (such as
XBoard, Winboard, Arena or Chessbase) to a \s-1UCI\s0 chess engine.
.PP
\&\s-1NOTE:\s0 Not all options are exported, only those that make sense in the
given mode.
-.SS "Book making utilities"
+.Sh "Book making utilities"
.IX Subsection "Book making utilities"
PolyGlot supports the \*(L"PolyGlot opening book format\*(R". This is the
defacto standard non-proprietary opening book format. It is fully documented
utility info-book will attempt to count the isolated positions which
require a player to make a non-book move when a book move is available.
Due to the possibility of transpositions this is not a fool proof method.
-.SS "Epd test mode"
+.Sh "Epd test mode"
.IX Subsection "Epd test mode"
In epd test mode, PolyGlot will search positions in an epd file and
record the number of times the right best move was found. The
arguments specify when to stop the search in any given position.
-.SS "Perft counts"
+.Sh "Perft counts"
.IX Subsection "Perft counts"
A perft count is the number of legal move sequence in a given position
up to a given depth. PolyGlot can perform such perft counts. It
This is an alias for \-pg \*(L"OnlyWbOptions=<value>\*(R".
.PP
When invoked as
-.SS "polyglot make-book"
+.Sh "polyglot make-book"
.IX Subsection "polyglot make-book"
PolyGlot supports the following options
.ie n .IP "\fB\-pgn\fR (default: ""book.pgn"")" 4
.PP
When invoked
as
-.SS "polyglot merge-book"
+.Sh "polyglot merge-book"
.IX Subsection "polyglot merge-book"
PolyGlot supports the following options
.IP "\fB\-in1\fR" 4
.PP
When invoked
as
-.SS "polyglot dump-book"
+.Sh "polyglot dump-book"
.IX Subsection "polyglot dump-book"
PolyGlot supports the following options
.IP "\fB\-bin\fR (default: book.bin)" 4
.PP
When invoked
as
-.SS "polyglot info-book"
+.Sh "polyglot info-book"
.IX Subsection "polyglot info-book"
PolyGlot supports the following options
.IP "\fB\-bin\fR (default: book.bin)" 4
Note that this takes a very long time.
.PP
When invoked as
-.SS "polyglot epd-test"
+.Sh "polyglot epd-test"
.IX Subsection "polyglot epd-test"
(possibly with a config file as first argument) PolyGlot supports
besides the generic options described above the following additional
Minimal search time when the search is stopped using \*(L"\-depth\-delta\*(R".
.PP
When invoked as
-.SS "polyglot perft"
+.Sh "polyglot perft"
.IX Subsection "polyglot perft"
PolyGlot supports the following
options
with '\e'. \*(L"Quoting\*(R" other characters in this way has no effect. In
particular the use of '\e' as a path separator in windows should
normally not affected.
-.SS "[PolyGlot] section"
+.Sh "[PolyGlot] section"
.IX Subsection "[PolyGlot] section"
This section is used by PolyGlot only. The engine is unaware of these
options. The list of available options is detailed below.
with the highest weight is selected.
.IP "\fBBookLearn\fR (default: false)" 4
.IX Item "BookLearn (default: false)"
-Store learning information in the book (which must be writable). Currently
-no engine actually uses this information.
+This is a noop.
.IP "\fBBookDepth\fR (default: 256)" 4
.IX Item "BookDepth (default: 256)"
Stop using the book after this number of moves.
.IX Item "OnlyWbOptions (default: true)"
If true then PolyGlot restricts the options it sends to those that
are potentially useful for WinBoard.
-.SS "Work arounds"
+.Sh "Work arounds"
.IX Subsection "Work arounds"
Work arounds are identical to options except that they should be used
only when necessary. Their purpose is to try to hide problems with
In that case the output of PolyGlot would be inconsistent.
When RepeatPV is false PolyGlot does not repeat the last pv string.
Due to the way kibitzing is implemented, KibitzMove is disabled in that case.
-.SS "[Engine] section"
+.Sh "[Engine] section"
.IX Subsection "[Engine] section"
This section contains engine \s-1UCI\s0 options. PolyGlot does not
understand them, but sends the information to the engine at startup
=item B<BookLearn> (default: false)
-Store learning information in the book (which must be writable). Currently
-no engine actually uses this information.
+This is a noop.
=item B<BookDepth> (default: 256)
Summary: A Winboard protocol to UCI protocol adapter
Name: polyglot
-Version: 1.4.66b
+Version: 1.4.67b
Release: 1
License: GPL
Group: Amusement/Games
// book learning
- if (option_get_bool(Option,"Book") &&
+ if (FALSE && option_get_bool(Option,"Book") &&
option_get_bool(Option,"BookLearn")) {
if (FALSE) {
projects / polyglot.git / commitdiff