Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:23:40 09/28/99
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On September 28, 1999 at 16:34:03, Scott Gasch wrote: > >>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 I think there is a "telluser" command to do this... I never considered using it for mate announcements as they have to be dismissed with a mouse click, which I don't like during a game... and on a chess server this would be a real problem if done wrong...
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