Author: Scott Gasch
Date: 14:23:42 10/14/99
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Let me preface this by saying these answers work with xboard. I'd also suggest you get the newest version of winboard (newest xboard if 4.0.3 I think) because the newest xboard has a nice feature that shutsdown if the chess engine dies unexpectedly. This happened to me a lot when i was first working on my engine because of bugs and assertion failures etc... If you leave it up unattended with older versions xboard stays up seeking new games and people get pissed when they accept and the engine is not around to play... >draws: currently i don't allow draws by agreement; the engine refuses the draw >request simply by making its move, how can i add a short tell like "sorry, this >computer ...."? maybe with 'tellics' command? In your input parser when you get "draw" output "kib Sorry this computer doesn't accept draws.". >seek: i would like to issue a seek continuously; i include it in my ics.ini to >issue the command at logon, is it correct to use the -zippyGameEnd option to >repeat the command after every game? Yes... by default xboard will send gameend to the ICS at the end of every game. Alias "gameend" to something useful like "multi seek 1 0 r f ; seek 3 5 r f" and you've got it... >resuming adjourned games: zippy.README states "The getMoveList option controls >how adjourned games are continued. If it is True (the default), xboard fetches >the move list from ICS and feeds it into the chess program before having the >program start play." in which way winboard does this? simply by setting force >mode on, then submitting every single move then finally using >"white"/"black"/"go" commands? This is don't know about, it just works for me and I have not investigated. Good luck, Scott
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