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Subject: Re: Crafty 19.12se vs Ruffian 2.0.2

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:07:55 04/25/04

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On April 25, 2004 at 22:26:43, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On April 25, 2004 at 19:14:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Questions:
>>
>>1.  What is the "depth=29" command?  That is screwing up a normal time control
>>game.
>>
>>2.  where do the "?" (move now) characters come from?  In an engine vs engine
>>match, the engines should control their own time usage and decide when to move.
>>
>>When playing Bxe8 it already saw it was lost, so that at least is working
>>correctly, but setting the depth is _wrong_ to say the least...
>
>
>It's all coming from the CP GUI ....I believe that CP has not actully
>implemented the winboard standard or the UCI standard ...but something that
>bares a resemblence to the standard until you actually see the commands that the
>GUI sends.
>
>I recommend that Crafty users use Arena or Winboard.  They seem to work best for
>Crafty.

I agree.  Sending a "depth" command is ridiculous.  As is sending a sporadic
"move now" (?) character...

Such games can't be trusted..




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