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Subject: Re: "Mate in x" announcements in Crafty/Winboard?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:34:50 01/08/00

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On January 08, 2000 at 14:37:57, Andy Serpa wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have added some tablebases to Crafty, and set up set test endgame positions to
>look at under the Winboard interface.  It indicates a mate by the huge score
>(and also indicates a tablebase hit by "EGTB"), but I can't tell the depth (it
>always says 4).  Is there any way to have Crafty indicate "Mate in X" under
>Winboard?  I was doing this is analysis mode -- does it matter?
>
>
>Andy Serpa
>renegade@earthling.net


Not at present.  The winboard/xboard protocol doesn't give any way to pass
'textual comments' to the user... only score in centipawns, etc...  Perhaps
a future addition to the protocol will allow clean mate scores to be shown.



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