Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:27:16 08/22/02
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On August 21, 2002 at 18:31:32, Matthias Gemuh wrote: >On August 21, 2002 at 17:27:50, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 21, 2002 at 16:58:02, Matthias Gemuh wrote: >> >>> >>>How do you display such basic infos like "depth/extensions" or "mate in N" with >>>the WB protocol ? >>> >>>Matthias. >> >> >>You can either use the normal one-line analysis window... >> >>or you can use the telluser command to create a new window with whatever >>you want in it.. > > >So while one engine is posting "Mate in 5", another is posting "+M5", and >another "5 Moves to Checkmate", etc to windows of personal choice ? That is >messy ! > >Matthias. Already happens. Nobody seems to agree how to display mate scores. Never have. never will. Which means the GUI has to clean it up _anyway_... I wrecked a lot of things when I first started displaying all scores as +=good for white. But I did it not to wreck everyone's GUI. I did it because I thought it made more sense and was easier to read. For me, it is now the _only_ way to display output...
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