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Subject: Re: Crafty request (Bob ?)

Author: Scott Gasch

Date: 13:34:03 09/28/99

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>I don't think there is an easy way to provide mate announcements to winboard
>or xboard at present (Tim?).  IE the "STAT" output has information about the
>score, nodes, etc...  but there isn't a way (that I know of) to send a pure
>Mat23 type score if I read the docs right a while back.  IE scanf() would
>not handle it correctly.
>
>It would make a good addition to be able to add some sort of announcement in
>the analysis window, such as "Mate in 23" or "draw" or whatever...

As I'm sure you are aware, Phalanx (I think?) announces forced mates in a popup.
They are kinda annoying and you can turn them off.  As I recall, the command
from the engine to xboard is "announce".

Scott



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