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Subject: Crafty epdxxxx commands Re: Simple Winboard Question

Author: Brian Richardson

Date: 18:21:36 06/07/00

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On June 07, 2000 at 10:43:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 07, 2000 at 10:29:43, Brian Richardson wrote:
>
>>On June 06, 2000 at 16:50:30, Jeff Lischer wrote:
>>
>>>Is there an easy way to run an epd test suite within Winboard?
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>
>>I don't think Winboard directly supports running epd test suites.  You can
>>import fen positions, but only one at a time.  It would be cumbersome to create
>>.bat and .ini files to run the whole suite.  Most programs have implemented a
>>"test" command instead (that does not run under winboard).
>>Also, Crafty's format is a little different (needs "setboard") from most.
>
>
>The "test" format in crafty was copied from Cray Blitz.  However, crafty has
>_full_ EPD support and can run any EPD test suite without any changes needed
>to the suite.

Well, I have been looking at Crafty for over a year and never noticed all of the
epdxxxx commands until just now.  Cool.

Thanks again Bob
Brian



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