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Subject: Re: ping/pong implementation in crafty

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:46:55 09/10/02

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On September 10, 2002 at 15:34:05, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>The xboard protocol spec says:
>
>"ping N" ... "if you receive a ping while pondering, you should reply
>immediately and continue pondering."
>
>Crafty doesn't do this correctly. If you send "ping N" to crafty while it is
>pondering it delays its response until a move was made.
>
>Greetings,
>Steffen.


You are right.  Although I don't see why xboard would ever send a "ping x"
while I am pondering since I can't imagine commands coming in right then.  But
I did fix this just now...



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