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Subject: Re: CM8000: Known bugs reported by users

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 00:04:01 11/24/00

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The problem is Chessmaster get lines from The King engine in a non xboard
compliant way (I think) and thus doesn't know how to make xboard engines send
the pv to it.

JW


On November 23, 2000 at 13:34:12, Ernst Walet wrote:

>I meant that the King engine would do this, not xboards engines, merely for
>analysis.  i'm curious when the King sticks at a move what move that is.
>
>Ernst.
>
>On November 22, 2000 at 22:11:02, Jason Williamson wrote:
>
>>On November 22, 2000 at 15:37:24, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>On November 22, 2000 at 12:00:57, Ernst Walet wrote:
>>>
>>>>It would be nice to show in the "thinking lines" window what move the engine is
>>>>currently thinking at, ie. after the node count.
>>>>
>>>>Ernst.
>>>>
>>>
>>>The problem is that most engines (such as Crafty) do not report what move they
>>>are currently thinking about in response to a "stat01" message (which is the
>>>message that drives the line of data that you are referring to). Therefore,
>>>since it is not part of the Xboard spec, it is not included in the output.
>>>
>>>jm
>>
>>Hmm, how about this suggestion.  Some engines can whisper or kibitz, and do so
>>by default.  For example Yace, Crafty, Comet, and many others.  Perhaps make it
>>possible to display this whisper or kibitz.
>>
>>JW



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