Questions tagged [uci]

In the UCI documentation, it says mate x search for a mate in x moves However, I believe this should say "search for mate in x plies", as plies are used in most of the protocol. I can not find any good documentation for this. Which way does it…

Is there a UCI protocol command that tells the other engine which team white or black to play? For instance, I wrote a chess engine. I connected my engine to play against Stockfish 15.1 using chess Arena 3.5.1 using a Java runnable jJar…

I am using some UCI engines from a command prompt. Most work fine (i.e. Stockfish, Houdini, Komodo) but when I use e.g. SOS (ver.5.1) or Hermann (Ver.2.8), I cannot seem to type any more moves after move 23. For example: position startpos moves f2f4…

Playing a bullet game(1 min) against UCI engine, I would send these command from GUI uci setoption name Hash value 256 isready ucinewgame position startpos e2e4 go wtime 60000 btime 60000 movestogo xx what should be the value of…