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

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 21:10:32 12/28/01

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I wonder if this bug exists in the CB version as well.  Hyatt?

On December 28, 2001 at 15:59:07, Lex Loep wrote:

>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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