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Subject: Re: Crafty 18.01, Little Goliath, SOS under CM8000 GUI

Author: John Merlino

Date: 09:55:48 01/14/01

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On January 13, 2001 at 14:23:06, Ralph Patriquin wrote:

>I'm having a few problems with these engines under Windows 98 and CM8000:
>
>1. Little Goliath plays fine within the CM8000 GUI. However it leaves an
>instance running every time I start a new game with it, so that even after I
>quit CM8000 I have to hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and kill 2 or 3 of them. This doesn't
>happen under Fritz6, nor does Crafty exhibit this problem.
>
>2. Crafty 17.14 works fine under CM8000, but Crafty 18.01 does not respond. If I
>look at the Xboard output window, Crafty initially connects and responds to
>CM8000, but never makes a move.
>
>3. I can't get SOS to respond at all under CM8000 or Fritz6. Has anybody gotten
>this engine to run successfully with these two programs? Also, where can I find
>the latest SOS version for download?
>
>Thanks!

I'll tell the development team about Little Goliath. Crafty 18.01 and SOS
probably send their moves in SAN, which the SHIPPING version of CM8000 does not
support. The patch WILL support engines that do this, so those two engines (and
probably many more) will work in CM8000 after the patch.

jm




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