Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:49:45 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 You can add "output long" to your crafty.rc file, to get the "ugly" output. But it is _far_ better to simply parse the SAN moves, as you are going to have to do it sooner or later.
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