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Subject: Re: Crafty request (Bob ?)

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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