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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