Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:08:00 01/29/00
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On January 29, 2000 at 14:28:12, Lex Loep wrote: >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 ? > I don't test anything with NT. However, try the latest code. There was at least one bug in the winboard interface that was fixed in the most recent version... > >> >> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>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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