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Subject: Re: Crafty update?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:50:44 01/05/01

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On January 04, 2001 at 23:57:11, Pete Galati wrote:

>On January 04, 2001 at 23:13:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 04, 2001 at 20:36:59, Darren Kong wrote:
>>
>>>Just wondering since crafty is playing with version 18.0 on ICC so...
>>
>>
>>It will be out soon.  I am finishing up the changes for the new winboard
>>protocol version 2 support.
>>
>>Other minor things:
>>
>>1.  Now all evaluations that appear will be +=good for white, -=good for
>>black.  This includes the analysis window on xboard/winboard, the output in
>>the text window, the log files, the whisper/kibitz analysis, etc.  Should
>>avoid a lot of confusion.
>>
>>2.  Minor changes to endgame evaluation to fix a few more holes, as well as
>>correct some drawn ending recognitions that were flawed in a few cases.  Minor
>>change to null-move in endings.
>>
>>3. automatic recognition of the "trojan horse" position, and as a result,
>>the "S" list is gone.
>>
>>4.  Other minor bug fixes, but the winboard support is the main significant
>>change overall.
>>
>>Once it works reliably (I have a problem resuming an adjourned game when the
>>game is interrupted while crafty is on move) the new version will be available.
>
>Is it compatible with the old versions of Winboard?
>
>Pete


Yes, in fact it is running on the old (4.1) xboard version right now while I
work on the last glitch I have on my list...



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