scenic pike
What the title says.
I was wondering if I should do:
ucinewgame
isready
position startpos
go depth 5
or do:
ucinewgame
isready
position startpos moves
go depth 5
or if it is not necessary to do either of those and I can just do this and get the exact same result:
ucinewgame
isready
go depth 5
All 3 ways work for me, so I was just curious if it affected how stockfish behaved when using or not using the "position"
brisk forge
if you send ucinewgame only, it will default to startpos
if you want to do something different besides startpos, you should send position startpos moves ... or position fen ... moves ...
clever scroll
All 3 ways work for me, so I was just curious if it affected how stockfish behav...
This goes against the UCI protocol, though
Before the engine is asked to search on a position, there will always be a position command to tell the engine about the current position.
so it might break in future stockfish versions, i presume
anyways, stockfish is really meant to be used with a GUI which should always send a position command before searching
scenic pike
Thanks for the comments, in short, if you use "ucinewgame" it is not necessary to use "position startpos" (the result is the same), and it may be necessary in future versions (assumption)