Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 21:44:08 01/30/01
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On January 31, 2001 at 00:40:03, Jon Dart wrote: >I've been converting Arasan to work with the beta versions of Winboard/xboard >4.2. Recently I've been working with xboard 4.2 under Linux (Mandrake 7.2). >Arasan seems to work ok running as a single chess program under xboard, both >against a manual opponent and on ICC. > >However, I've tried matching Arasan against Crafty 18.1 using xboard, with >Arasan as the first program and Crafty as the second, and I'm having problems. >If I set "san=0" in Arasan's feature list, then Arasan sends a move but when it >gets Crafty's reply, xboard is sending me a move like "e5" with no carriage >return after it, so I hang waiting for the carriage return that never comes. I >kind of expected a move like "e7-e5": doesn't san=0 mean I'm not prepared to >accept SAN notation? And I'm puzzled about the missing '\n'. > >If I set "san=1", then I get a different behavior. Crafty rejects the first move >from xboard, saying something "illegal move (ambiguous): d4go". Then xboard >reports move 'd4' rejected by second chess program". So it seems xboard thinks >it sent "d4", but Crafty thinks it has "d4go". > >Anyone seen this before, or have a possible explanation? Well known problem. Go back to the previous version of Winboard and it goes away.
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