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Subject: Re: Newbie Chess programmer help please ?

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 09:44:09 04/18/03

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On April 18, 2003 at 11:00:02, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On April 18, 2003 at 10:49:36, Geoff wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>Incidentally is Crafty just a Winboard engine or does it have its own interface
>>? If it is just a Winboard engine how would I enter the 'perft <ply>' command ?
>
>Crafty is an xboard/winboard-compatible engine. I dunno how to issue this
>command within these interfaces. (I know there's a function key or something
>which opens a panel where you can issue a command (and read the output in the
>debug log) but maybe there's a better method in Winboard) Maybe a Winboard-user
>can shed some more light on this.
>

In Xboard it's <Shift>-1 to send a command to the first program (the one loaded
with -fcp) and <Shift>-2 to send a command to the second.


>I typically start Crafty from the shell (being a Linux-user I don't mind it ;)
>and enter the perft-command there.
>
>Sargon

Andrew



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