Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:09:17 11/25/03
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On November 25, 2003 at 14:56:04, Peter Berger wrote: >On November 25, 2003 at 11:54:10, Volker Pittlik wrote: > >>After Winboard is started press "Alt+1" at the keyboard at enter "computer" >>manually. Here I got the following result after doing so: > >Very clever, Volker. Thanks for confirming the bug and then also finding a >workaround. > >I am also happy about this solution personally as alternatives would have had >inconvenient consequences. > >a.) Faulty setup > >=> I would have had to redo the games. > >But Crafty was set up correctly, fine. There was just some unknown bug in it. > >b.) Allow updates > >This would have been against the rules and also pretty unfair, as Junior for >practical reasons was extremely unlikely to be provided with any in a similar >situation. > >So fortunately it is c.), a workaround was found. > >For something nearly unrelated. In case the computer command still has similar >effects as it used to have I don't think Crafty will be very happy with it. It >used to narrow the book down to an extent that it became extremely vulnerable >for an agressive learner. Remember that Crafty is _also_ an "agressive learner". It won't repeat lost openings. > >It probably also means that Crafty won't resign and never accept any draws if I >recall correctly :(. You can always add the command "resign=9" after you enter the "computer" command. And then "draw=accept" after that. Did you try the -xreuse to see if it fixed the problem? I am going to test that right now... There is a problem. Xboard sends a "new" command after everything is set up, including the "computer" command from the .craftyrc file. "new" restores things to the starting set-up, which is screwed up, of course. I'll fix "new" so that this doesn't happen, although I am not sure that is a good overall solution. Better would be no "new" command for the first game, which makes no sense anyway... > >At least I'll turn swindle off as I don't think anyone will see any need to >debug the Nalimov tables. > >I actually thought I was watching a new and improved version of the computer >command, not knowing that it just didn't work. > >Peter
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