Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:45:24 01/09/00
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On January 09, 2000 at 05:05:23, Chrille wrote: >On January 08, 2000 at 16:34:50, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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. > >Just for the record it is possible to pass direct text to >the user, namely in the PV. For example my program always >gives a little smilie to indicate just how it thinks it's >doing :) > >For example, after 10 (!) moves against Crafty: >5 -611 100 22893 Nd4 X-| > >Its not feeling very happy anymore. > >Of course I've sacrificed the PV display for that, but >my PV's never make any sense anyway. > >- Christian That may work... as I don't know of a restriction on what you can send in the PV...
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