Author: enrico carrisco
Date: 14:47:13 01/23/04
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On January 23, 2004 at 17:41:45, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi Enrico, > >> Hello Thomas.. I commented on it when you first posted. It was a great idea >> and I wish we had the code to Ebbi's autoplayer to modify it in the same >> fashion. However, unless you've greatly updated Remi's old project -- it had >> many problems when using it on the ICSs and would stop moving, lose moves and >> couldn't resume a stored game (hence, if someone is disconnected during CCT6, >> they are done...) > >well, sure there are some problems - I had some contact to Eberhard, maybe some >more may ask him if he want to implement kibitzing in a similar way... I know >about some limitations of Rémi's Auto232-player and did try to get it compatible >to as many GUIs as possible - but Ebbi's Adapter is somewhat better, that is >sure - but as you pointed out, the source is not available. >At least I did some testmatches with Junior 8 and they did work quite fine (but >I had no disconnects). > >Greets, Thomas Heck, if you have contact with Eberhard -- ask him to add a command line to specify kibitzing and a filename (winboard232c.exe -k d:\program files.....\eval.txt) and do the same thing you do -- paste the file contents to ICC right before sending the auto232 move. Additionally, the file could be deleted as a safety precaution, and re-created each time by the engine's PV update. He is an old friend, but I've lost his email address. When we had first thought about entering CCT5, I worked with him a bit, but then Mark and I pulled away from the idea for different reasons. -elc.
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