Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:44:34 12/24/00
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On December 24, 2000 at 12:06:46, Les Fernandez wrote: >I am running crafty vs crafty in winboard but every so often, in between games, >winboard announces an error that says e7-e5 illegal. What I was told is >happening is that there sometimes is not a long enough delay in between games >and therefore does not allow e7-e5 cause it thinks it is still in the middle of >the game. Can someone familiar with winboard know how to flush the memory if >this is what it will take or to place a delay in between games. > >Thanks in advance, > >Les Try to disable reuse of the engine. This ought to clear things up. What happens is that one process tries to make a move, but is told to "start a new game". The move gets back to xboard after the new game was sent, so if it happens to be legal, xboard will send it to the other engine and screw things up. If you disable engine reuse, I don't think it will happen as the engine is actually killed and a new one started, which cleans up the pipes between xboard/winboard and the engine... I think it is something like /reuseChessProgram false for xboard, I am not sure about winboard.
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