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Subject: Re: Sjeng & Scid

Author: Shane Hudson

Date: 18:38:50 09/02/01

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On September 01, 2001 at 10:05:56, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 30, 2001 at 11:08:04, Stefan Knappe wrote:
>
>>>Aye, it doesn't?
>>>
>>>I'll check it out...thanks for reporting.
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>Could you tell me if you will find out something? My engine doesn't work too and
>>I don't know the reason :-(
>
>Hrm it works perfectly here on Linux...I don't remember chaning anything
>between 10.0 and my version...perhaps you have the sjeng.rc file set up
>wrong or something?
>
>One thing I noticed in the docs is that SCID checks for 'crafty' before it
>starts to send commands like 'setboard'.
>
>This is wrong...it should send 'protover 2' and check which commands the engine
>supports. Thats the whole point of Winboard protocol version 2. Right now
>analysis with Sjeng will be suboptimal (forget everything after each move) just
>because Sjeng is not crafty...

Oops, I guess the documentation is out of date. For a couple of verisons
now, Scid has understood "protover" and sends "protover 2" when an engine
starts. So any engine that prints a line starting with "Crafty" OR knows
how to respond to "protover 2" with "feature ..." lines should work fine
in analysis mode in Scid.

Cheers,
Shane (author of Scid)
Scid website: http://scid.sourceforge.net/




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