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

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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