Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 07:11:57 01/18/01
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On January 18, 2001 at 10:04:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Winboard sends the ping only in case the engine had registered this feature. So, older engines (not adapted to protver 2) do not get the "ping" from Tim. Uli > >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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