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Subject: Re: xboard protocol - variants

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:47:37 11/20/03

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On November 20, 2003 at 09:57:11, Sven Reichard wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>I'm currently implementing the full xboard protocol for my engine, and I ran
>into a problem that I couldn't solve just looking at the documentation.
>
>Since I'm only interested in regular chess, I'm sending the following command:
>
>feature variants=normal
>
>The documentation states that the supported variants should be given as a
>comma-separated list. However, xboard (I think it is 4.6) rejects this feature.
>Does anybody have a hint what is wrong with it?
>
>Thanks,
>Sven.


You might have the syntax wrong.  What you need to send xboard is this:

feature  variants="a,b,c"

where a, b and c are the variants you support.  IE it is a comma-separated
list of choices, and the quotes are needed to bind the list into one thing
during parsing.



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