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Subject: Crafty does not alway respond to "new" command

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 12:44:03 01/28/00


While working on my winboard adapter I run across this strange problem,
when a new game command is given on the GUI menus, the winboard
adapter translates this to a "new\n" be send to the winboard engine
crafty 17.3
normally after 'new' crafty comes back with tellics .. and kibitz...
not in this case, even giving 3 times new in a row, nothings comes back.
Then when I pass the first move to crafty, it certainly remembers all
the 'new' commands and shows all the tel and kib lines 3 times followed
by the moves.
Now in the above case there is no real problem, but if you play a few
moves until it is out the opening book, then give 'new' , the new command
is never recognised, then playing the first move is seen as illegal. then
another 'new' command brings everything back.
I first though there is some problem in hanlding the pipes from the
winboard adapter to crafty, but I could not find anything wrong.

so I did the same test starting crafty standalone, gave it the following
commands:

xboard
e4
---- got back move e7e5
e4
---- got back move g8f6
h4
---- out of book, got back move f6e4
new
----  no response here
e4
----  Illegal move: e4   ??????

Do I miss something, is this normal ?  Crafty 15.x has the same behaviour.

Platform is NT 4 / SP6 / 128 MB


Lex



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