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Subject: Re: Winboard / Engine that plays illegal positions

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 01:48:03 09/10/99

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On September 09, 1999 at 22:17:25, Pete Galati wrote:

>On September 09, 1999 at 16:36:05, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>
>>1.) Is there a way to make winboard exit after any game ends (draw, mate, etc.)
>>without changing wb code ?
>>
>>2.) How do I start wb without the selection box ?
>>
>>3.) Do you know of any very simple winboard engine which would happily play
>>without kings? (like play knight vs. 3 pawns) Maybe one of your first versions
>>of chessprograms ? I only need like 1500+ strength to test something (again I
>>could simply change crafty a bit but I'm not good enough to do that in an hour
>>or so).
>>
>>Thx,
>>Tec.
>
>I'm very unclear as to what you're trying to do, but if it's any help a Winboard
>engine with a very small amount of code, in fact the Winboard stuff seams to be
>lumped into a separate .c file is Faile.
>
>I don't know it's strength and I've never tried to set up a position with.
>
>Pete

Thanks,
I know Faile and its author, but I would still need to change it to make it play
without kings. I'm looking for a program that can play an illegal position where
there are no kings on the board (or just 1 king).



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