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Subject: Re: Newbie Chess programmer help please ?

Author: Robert Pope

Date: 09:53:54 04/18/03

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On April 18, 2003 at 12:44:09, Andrew Williams wrote:

>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

Or in Windows, double-click crafty.exe in Windows explorer.  It will launch in a
dos box, and you can type any commands you want, e.g. "perft 4".



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