Author: Lex Loep
Date: 11:28:12 01/29/00
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On January 29, 2000 at 10:25:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. > > > I have tried it with version 17.3 and with 15.14, both had the same behaviour, I did type xboard on the prompt before the first move. It's very strange, I changed my winboard adapter to send the "ponder off\n" command befor "new\n" , then it works as expected. Did you test on NT or Linux ? > > >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>>>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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