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

Author: Ralph Patriquin

Date: 20:27:45 01/14/01

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On January 14, 2001 at 21:54:23, Jason Williamson wrote:

>On January 14, 2001 at 17:36:59, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On January 14, 2001 at 17:22:10, Ralph Patriquin wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks for the help guys! I look forward to the patch. What is SAN? I take it
>>>that it's a newer communication protocol for WinBoard, and the newer Crafty has
>>>switched to it?
>>
>>SAN is Standard Algebraic Notation. CM8000 didn't completely follow the WinBoard
>>spec on what notations engines can use to send their moves. The King sends its
>>moves in coordinate, so that's all that CM8000 supported. It now supports (with
>>the patch) both coordinate and SAN. However, it will NOT support foreign
>>versions of SAN, where the piece names are in other languages (as is often seen
>>in posts here).
>>
>>Dr. Hyatt said that newer versions of Crafty would use SAN rather than
>>coordinate, and I guess that day has come.
>>
>>jm
>
>
>Just a note, I did contact Borgestadt concerning the exit thing... since this
>was a problem in my various tourneys and it was a known issue, he just wasn't
>working on the 2.x series anymore.
>
>3.0 seems to work ok.

Where do you get Little Goliath 3.0?



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