Author: Matt Thomas
Date: 05:08:41 12/29/03
I am creating an input queue for my chess engine and have most the protocol commands handled okay. I question the correct usage of the variants feature. The goal is to advise Winboard that only standard chess games are to be played, no bughouse or whatever. Is the correct usage?: feature variants="normal" I have all my features wrapped up into a single string with spaces between each. This string will be sent to stdout with a quoted escape sequence for strings. A brief example of its code appearance: char * str = "feature ping=1 setboard=1 variants=\"normal\" colors=0\n"; The protocol mentions that I can send features as a group, but I just want to verify it is expected a string formatted as such. I am using a single \n at the end -this would seem to make sense. So far I feel good about the code so far and have a plan for handling input without it eating many clock cycles during pondering/move search. Its been a while since I used C/C++ for anything, especially console apps and it feels good to get back into it. I've been spoiled by VB6. Its nice to have to think in depth again. Thanks, -Matt mbox1@alltel.net
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