Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:28:50 06/10/05
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On June 09, 2005 at 16:38:03, Joshua Shriver wrote:
>While reading the crafty help I can see it plays ICC's Wild7, however it seems
>to also play (somewhat) Wild5 (as named on FICS).
>
>How can I play it locally? Right now the only way I can get it to play this
>variant it to have it connect to FICS and then login myself and do a "match 5 0
>w5".
>
>It seems to understand the rules, but it's extremely slow, as if the timing is
>broken when operating under this variant. Here is a game I tried playing.
>
>I eventually had to flag the engine after it hung with several minutes past the
>flagging point and no movement.
>
>
>[Event "FICS rated wild/5 game"]
>[Site "FICS, San Jose, California USA"]
>[Date "2005.06.09"]
>[Time "13:16:09"]
>[Round "-"]
>[White "jshriverWVU"]
>[Black "Olympus"]
>[WhiteElo "1902"]
>[BlackElo "2118"]
>[TimeControl "300+0"]
>[FEN "RNBKQBNR/PPPPPPPP/8/8/8/8/pppppppp/rnbkqbnr w - - 0 1"]
>[Mode "ICS"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>
>1. Nf6 Nc3 2. g8=Q b1=Q 3. Nc6 Nf3 4. b8=Q g1=Q 5. Bb7 Bh3 6. Qxg1
>{Black forfeits on time} 1-0
>
>Any suggestions for local play? Know of any engines that plays this or other
>types of variants?
>
>-Joshua Shriver
The chess servers set up the starting position and send it to the GUI, which
then informs the engine. If you play locally, just find the FEN for the
starting position, and cut/paste it into the crafty text window and it will set
that position up and play from there.
No idea about the timing issues, I can't imagine what would make it lose on time
other than severe lag without the FICS timestamp (timeseal) client being used...
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