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Subject: Re: How can I play wild20 games with Winboard-Crafty on ICC?

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 11:42:56 05/18/00

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On May 18, 2000 at 01:08:39, Stefan Roehrich wrote:

>On May 17, 2000 at 20:19:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On May 17, 2000 at 13:59:01, Stefan Roehrich wrote:
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>I tried to play wild20 games on ICC with Crafty. But
>>>the program declined my challenges with the message
>>>"This computer cannot play wild(20) [normal], only normal".
>>>I tried to use "-zippyVariants" but couldn't get it to work :-(
>>>Is it not possible with Crafty? Or maybe can any other engine
>>>play wild20 games with Winboard on ICC?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance :-)
>>>Stefan Roehrich
>>>icc handle: vorapsaK
>>
>>
>>If you are talking about the wild variant where you start from some unusual
>>position, it should work (at least from Crafty's perspective).  I am not sure
>>how to make winboard handle this however..
>
>Thanks! You are right, I meant the wild variant where you can load a position at
>the start of the game with the "loadgame" command.
>If Crafty can handle this ...then it looks like a Winboard/Zippy problem.
>Anyone know what I have to tell Zippy or Winboard to play wild20 games with
>Crafty (or any engine)?
>

The latest ChessPartner can handle this :)

Lex



>Regards
>Stefan Roehrich



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