Scan hub setting

[Sidiki]

Hi all,

For those who are interested by Scan hub GUI for have pondering option, save game, edit position.

For those who haven't Java installed you can download the offline setup here: http://www61.zippyshare.com/v/TLGW76zj/file.html

*1. Edit your hub.ini file like this: ( just replace the line "engine-dir" by your Scan 2.0 exe directory's) you can adjust game time also.

engine-name = Scan2.0
engine-dir = C:\Users\user\Desktop\scan_20
engine-command =
./scangui-square = 60 gui-font = 25gui-oval = true
game-moves = 75
game-time = 1
game-inc = 0
game-ponder = true



*2. Edit the "engine.ini" according to your Computer core, this is mine's:


book = true
book-margin = 0
ponder = true
threads = 4
tt-size = 24
bb-size = 6

*3. Now open hub.jar, you will see "init" this mean that it's loading the egdb

Scan loading.JPG (81.93 KiB) Viewed 10511 times

When it will be ready you will see this

Scan Ready.JPG (78.98 KiB) Viewed 10511 times

After the few opening moves, you will see this, that prove that Scan it is pondering (44-39) it's the move planned by Scan 2.0

Scan pondering.JPG (76.03 KiB) Viewed 10511 times

If you want to play with white play directly
If you want to play with Black press (G), Scan will play
Reverse board (R)
New game (N)
left/right -> undo/redo one ply
up/down -> undo/redo full game
Analyse current position (A)
Save game (S) a pdn file "game.pdn" will be created in Scan 2.0 directory
Load a game (L)
To edit a position be sure that a game it's not save, open a text file and edit it like this example:
[FEN
"W:W25,28,31-33,35-38,42-49:B1-4,8-19,23,24"]
and then save it as "game.pdn" into Scan 2.0 directory, open Scan 2.0 and press (L) Load you will get this:

Scan FEN.JPG (73.22 KiB) Viewed 10511 times

Thank,

Sidiki

[Fabien Letouzey]

Hi Sidiki,

Hi all,

For those who are interested by Scan hub GUI for have pondering option, save game, edit position.

...

Thanks, that's very helpful!

engine-command =
./scangui-square = 60 gui-font = 25gui-oval = true

These should be separate lines:

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engine-command = ./scan
gui-square = 60
gui-font = 25
gui-oval = true

My text files are in Unix (LF) format and probably need to be converted to Windows (CRLF) format. I assumed that most text editors would do that automatically, but apparently not.

Thanks again,

Fabien.

[Sidiki]

Hi Fabien,

Thank for this detail, it's was important to know what was really any code line .
Thank.
Sidiki

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Thank you Sidiki and Fabien. I would like to try it out and I have such a question. What should be the correct entry if I have program Scan 2.0 on D:\ in the folder Scan Interational. I mean the entry engine-dir =

[Fabien Letouzey]

Thank you Sidiki and Fabien. I would like to try it out and I have such a question. What should be the correct entry if I have program Scan 2.0 on D:\ in the folder Scan Interational. I mean the entry engine-dir =

Hub doesn't handle spaces in the INI file. You'll need to rename the directory.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Hub doesn't handle spaces in the INI file. You'll need to rename the directory.

Thank you very much Fabien. I still have some questions Fabien to You.

1. Is it possible to have a sound when making moves on a board
2. Is it possible to make the time on both sides flow every one second
3. Is it possible to play with another program using dxp
4. Write what the word means "Hit"

Krzysztof

[Fabien Letouzey]

1. Is it possible to have a sound when making moves on a board

Sound is supposed to work, although only for Scan's moves. There is some chance that the AIFF format is not recognised on Windows. Find a .WAV elsewhere, put it into Hub's directory, and set the new name in hub.ini That's just a guess, though.

2. Is it possible to make the time on both sides flow every one second

Hub reacts only to external events such as a mouse click or the engine sending information. That's why the clocks are updated only between moves. I don't know any easy way to change that.

3. Is it possible to play with another program using dxp

There's no DXP yet. I've been asked about this multiple times, so it's possible that I implement something in the future. That's still a lot of work, however.

4. Write what the word means "Hit"

"Hit" (for "ponder hit") means that the user played the move that Scan expected during pondering (the one inside brackets); the search continues from where it was.

A different move would be called "ponder miss" and a new search has to be launched. Hub would display this as "Think" (same as a move without pondering).

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Thank you for your reply Fabien. Can I still ask you for the sound of the program, because it is very important in my tournaments. I put the Wav file into a folder hub - I attach a picture. Can you write what command should be in the file hub.ini - to make the sound work.

[Fabien Letouzey]

Thank you for your reply Fabien. Can I still ask you for the sound of the program, because it is very important in my tournaments. I put the Wav file into a folder hub - I attach a picture. Can you write what command should be in the file hub.ini - to make the sound work.

It should be:

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gui-sound = DAM3.WAV

I think Windows hides extensions by default so it's not always clear what the real name is.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Thanks Fabien. The sound works. Fabien is whether it is possible to watch while running a program as the program is working. Please look at the picture - as you see on your laptop next to you GUI can see also how the program works.

[Fabien Letouzey]

Thanks Fabien. The sound works. Fabien is whether it is possible to watch while running a program as the program is working. Please look at the picture - as you see on your laptop next to you GUI can see also how the program works.

You have good eyes

I launch Hub from the command line like this:
1) open a console
2) go to Hub's directory with the "cd" command
3) type "java -jar hub.jar"

Hub will run normally, but the console will also show all the communication between Hub and Scan. However you can already see the search information below Hub's board, so the console will not add much.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Thank you very much but it is a bit complicated for me and especially for this

I launch Hub from the command line like this:
1) open a console
2) go to Hub's directory with the "cd" command
3) type "java -jar hub.jar"

I'm sorry to ask but how to open this console.

[Fabien Letouzey]

I'm sorry to ask but how to open this console.

My bad; apparently it is called "Command Prompt" on Windows, and not "Console" as I thought (because of "Console Application"). On Linux and macOS, it is called "Terminal".

You can find many tutorials on command prompt like these ones:
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/arc ... rompt.html
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutori ... roduction/
http://www.digitalcitizen.life/command- ... c-commands

However, knowing what you intend to do with it, I think it's not worth for you to learn this yet. It's only a little bit more information.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Thank you for all the help Fabien. I wonder if the tournament moves you enter manually or using the mouse. I think using the cmd command to use the program is much better.

[Sidiki]

The command mode worked for me. It's funny to see what happening during the game into the command.