Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 10:46:19 01/25/02
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On January 25, 2002 at 13:15:34, William H Rogers wrote: >I thank you fellows for the input. My program is written in Basic and I can not >interface with xboard, however, some time in the future I will rewrite it >entirely in "c". My program moved d2d4 and I inadvertenly entered e2e4 with the >mouse. I had no way to take the move back and therefore could not continue the >game. >This is the very first outing for my program anywhere, by me. I even had to >guess at a starting rating and I think that I was and am close. I will welcome >any and all contestants to play or replay me, after all it is just a game. There >is no shame in losing as programs have many different ratings. I am in it for >the sport and to see just what my shortcommings and strong suits are. >As far as a "takeback" move or option, I still do not know how to ask or do it. >I am still not sure how to communicate with my opponent. When I used the window >below my chess board the message was shouted to everyone and that is not what I >wanted to do. If you are using BlitzIn, make sure you have a generic console window open. Do this by going to the window menu and selecting 'New Generic Console'. To talk to somebody, the best way is to use the tell command. For example: tell crafty Hello Bob This will send the message 'Hello Bob' to crafty. You can also send a message to channel 64, for example: tell 64 Hello CCT participants A channel is like a chat room, everyone in the channel will receive messages sent to the channel. To make sure you are in channel 64, type: +channel 64 Oh, one thing about channels is that in BlitzIn you can define a special window to receive all messages for a particular channel. So if you already have a window/console open for channel 64, you won't see channel 64 messages in your generic console. Finally, the help command is very useful. Try: help tell help channel help takeback Good luck for the rest of the tournament. cheers, Peter >I also want to mention that I found most of the people in the tournement were >very friendly and helpful. There was a constant amount of chatter going back and >forth between all players. >If anyone has written a program and has never entered a tournement, I incourage >you do it. It is a lot of fun and does no harm to anyone. Either you lose or you >win and one or two games will not deminish you or your program in any way. >After all, there are millions of people all over the world and some of them may >want your program based upon its strength. >I can not play a decent game against Crafty, as it kicks my butt. However, when >I find a program that is closer to my own playing strengt then I am encouraged >to get it and play it. >Pardon me, I did not know that I was so longwinded. >Bill >Lordx
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