Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Date: 06:18:02 05/23/98
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On May 22, 1998 at 21:08:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >I received a debug file from KK, and it has some interesting stuff >in it. I'm going to clip the relevant part and include it below with >comments inserted and indented to separate them from the text. Note >that Crafty is "first" (playing black) and Comet is "second" playing >white... > >Sending to first: d4d5 >Received from first: Hint: O-O >Received from first: 5 -42 111 14055 11. ... Qf6 12. dxe6 >Qxe6 13. Qxe6+ fxe6 14. Bc4 Kf7 >Received from first: 5 -42 191 23318 11. ... Qf6 12. dxe6 >Qxe6 13. Qxe6+ fxe6 14. Bc4 Kf7 >Received from first: 6 -67 330 41590 11. ... Qf6 12. Bg4 >Nh6 13. dxe6 Nxg4 14. exd7+ Kxd7 >Received from first: 6 -37 364 47921 11. ... exd5!! >Received from first: 6 -36 443 61004 11. ... exd5 12. Qxd5 >Ne7 13. Qb7 Qc8 14. Qxc8+ Nxc8 15. O-O >Received from first: 6 -36 546 74996 11. ... exd5 12. Qxd5 >Ne7 13. Qb7 Qc8 14. Qxc8+ Nxc8 15. O-O >Received from first: 11. ... e6d5 > > up to here, all looks good. Crafty played exd5, after searching to > a depth of 6 plies, and is expecting Qxd5 as a reply. It sent the > proper string to winboard "11. ... e6d5" which was the move it wanted > to play. > > > >Interrupting second >Sending to second: time 19182otim 14399 >Sending to second: e6d5 >Received from second: 11. e6d5 > > this doesn't look so good. Comet echoed crafty's move. I don't > know that this causes a problem, but look below... > > >Received from first: Hint: Qxd5 >Received from second: 83 [4] : b3d5 g8e7 d5d6 d8b6 >Received from second: 85 [5] : b3d5 g8e7 d5b7 d8c8 b7e4 >Received from first: 6 -84 310 22401 12. ... Ne7 13. Qd3 >Nf6 14. Qxd8+ Kxd8 15. O-O Ke8 16. Rd1 >Interrupting first >Sending to first: time 14545 >otim 18899 >Sending to first: e6d5 > > that is bad. the move Crafty played was sent right back to crafty > as comet's move. Crafty rejected it, properly, and winboard probably > popped up an illegal move window at this point... > > >Received from second: 85 [5] : b3d5 g8e7 d5b7 d8c8 b7e4 >Received from first: illegal move. >Received from first: 6 -60 1151 85897 12. ... Ngf6 13. Qc6 >a5 14. O-O Rc8 15. Qf3 >Interrupting first >Sending to first: time 14600 >otim 18399 >Sending to first: e6d5 > > > winboard sends it again, since it was rejected. Crafty rejects it > a second time. with the same illegal move message. > > >Received from first: 6 -60 1192 88346 12. ... Ngf6 13. Qc6 >a5 14. O-O Rc8 15. Qf3 >Received from first: illegal move. >Received from second: 87 [6] : b3d5 g8f6 d5g2 a8a7 b1d2 d8a8 >Received from second: 87 [6] : b3d5 g8f6 d5g2 a8a7 b1d2 d8a8 >Received from second: 12. ... b3d5 > > > now Comet sends the real move it wants to play. > > >who is wrong? I don't know. Either this is a problem caused by the >echo of the opponent's move by Comet (which is not needed) or it is a >bug in winboard. I'll send a note to Tim Mann to let him look... but >clearly something is wrong... It is bug in Winboard. If you send a string containing "..." (like in your pv) it will be misinterpreted. Tim Mann knows about it and has already fixed the problem. Stefan
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