Author: Pete Galati
Date: 12:10:00 06/30/99
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On June 30, 1999 at 13:54:39, Andrew Williams wrote: >On June 30, 1999 at 13:25:44, Chuck wrote: > >>Looking at Tim Mann's web pages, I can't find the message Winboard sends to an >>engine when the user requests "Move Now". Can someone post the syntax for this >>and whether there may be any special considerations? >> >>Thanks. > >According to my xboard 4.0.0 documentation, xboard sends "?" when it >wants your program to stop thinking and move immediately. This is what >I've implemented in my program, and it seems to work. > >Andrew With the Winboard interface itself it's just a matter of hitting the 'insert' key or alt-insert. In Crafty without the interface, yes you just use '?' to stop the calculation & Crafty makes a move, so I'm sure that your program and any program that follows Winboard's 'move now' command share that, I find it aggrevating that some don't, but you can't have everything. Pete
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