Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:25:34 01/29/00
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On January 29, 2000 at 04:05:00, Lex Loep wrote: >On January 28, 2000 at 17:21:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 28, 2000 at 15:44:03, Lex Loep wrote: >> >>>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: >>> >> >> >>are you fflushing the buffer on output? Or have you set the buffer size >>to zero. Crafty doesn't do any buffering at all, using only read() and >>write() to talk thru the pices. If you don't flush() after writing "new\n" >>I won't get it until later. >> > >I am using WriteFile followed by FlushFileBuffers, if it get's it later >it's no problem, but sometimes it does not get it at all. >The same happens with crafty running in a command prompt and just >typing in the commands from the keyboard. It seem related to the 'new' >command itself in combination with pondering. >If I send the sequence >"ponder off\n" >"new\n" >then it works fine. > >Lex Is this the most recent version(s)? IE I just tried this: book off e4 (wait for it to move) (it makes move and starts pondering) I type "new" game backs up to move 1. > > >> >> >> >>>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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