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Subject: Re: Crafty (under winboard) question

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 06:57:29 12/21/03

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On December 21, 2003 at 07:36:56, Andrei Fortuna wrote:

>Hi,
>
>This question is about crafty in particular, but it's more about any winboard
>engine that behaves like this.
>
>I am writing an adapter for a soon-to-be-online chess club (i.e. it will allow
>any winboard-compatible engine to play there using this adapter) and I have a
>problem with crafty : I expected it to send its moves like 'move e7e5', instead
>it sends them as 'move e5', which of course gives me some headaches.
>
>My question is : is there a way to tell any winboard-compatible engine to send
>its moves like 'e7e5' instead of just 'e5' ? Or do I have to bite the bullet and
>write the code to parse such short moves ? In particular : if there is no
>general way to do this, is it possible to have it just for Crafty ?
>
>Thanks,
>Andrei

type what is below (without the quotes) in a plain text file and name it
"crafty.rc".  Place this file in the same folder as the crafty executable
===========================================================

"
output long
exit
<leave this line blank>
"



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