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Subject: Re: What is Winboards' "MOVE NOW" command?

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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