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Subject: Re: Crafty 18.12 consistently loosing in 1 0 games - found the problem

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 12:59:07 12/28/01

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After some further analysis I found the problem, in fact there where
two errors

1) Crafty has a bug in the 'level' command, the
command "level 0 1 0" which should mean game in 1 minute
is handled by crafty as game in 1 second, wich eventually lead
to crafty setting its target time to 5 seconds per move.

2) the time/otime commands where not send by the winboard adapter.

Problem 1 can be worked around by changing the following lines
in ENGINEEXT.INI

Level1=level %4 %3 0\n
Level5=level 0 %3 %5\n

This cause the winboard adapter to send the level command in second,
thus for a 1 0 game it sends "level 0 60 0

Problem 2 was a missing option in the ENGINEEXT.INI file , the following
option must be present:

Options=3

2 out of the 3 PC's I used to test it where missing this line.


Thanks for your feedback.


Lex



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