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

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 10:41:26 01/14/01

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On January 14, 2001 at 12:55:48, John Merlino wrote:

>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

I think the LLittle Goliath is a problem on LGs part, in that it expects exit
and recives quit.

SOS has never worked for me.



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