Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:04:38 01/18/01
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On January 18, 2001 at 09:14:47, David Wilke wrote: >I have noticed that when people just bring a program onto a server, for some odd >reason the engine does _not_ respond to the first match request. > >I have noticed this myself when I tried the new Crafty, yet doesn't happen when >using an older version of Winboard. > >Could this be a bug? There is possibly a small timing hole. Tim uses "ping" after any command that might take a while to execute. When the engine finishes, it then sends a "pong". As the thing first logs on, starting crafty can take a few seconds while it sanity-checks the EGTB files. If a match comes in before crafty says "pong" then xboard rejects the match request immediately... perhaps that is what you are seeing... another program is issuing a match very quickly and xboard/engine are not quite ready.
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