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Subject: Any UCI versus Winboard experts out there?

Author: Keith Ian Price

Date: 19:39:45 08/20/02

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>>I can't imagine what one would have to do to cause Crafty to behave like
>>this.  But anything is possible.  I would be very surprised if a GUI could
>>cause this.  Perhaps bad changes or a buggy compile could do the trick nicely,
>>however...
>
>
>Actually there is a way.  The GUI could be sending the wrong moves (or bad
>moves) so that the position crafty is looking at is not the same as the position
>that is really on the board.  I don't know a thing about arena... does it check
>moves for legality?  If not, then if the opponent sends something bogus the two
>programs could certainly get "out of sync" and you could see such nonsense.

But out of sync or not, Ra1xe5 is not a legal move. What I am wondering is, if
he set up Crafty as a UCI engine, instead of a Winboard engine, could Arena
misinterpret what Crafty is saying so as to make these moves, even though they
are illegal? I have to assume Arena has no checks for legality, since it happily
reported these moves...

kp



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