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xboard / crafty / black

#3730
From: Kevin Maguire
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:00
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Hi

I'm having trouble playing black against crafty/xboard .  I've
downlaoded the latest (beta) version of xboard from Tim Mann's web
page, plus the latest xboard-supported version of crafty (11.3).  Both
compile cleanly on my Digital Unix 4.0 running alpha workstation.
Starting with

xboard -initString "" -debug -fcp "crafty xboard"



and choosing "Machine White" causes crafty to play it's opening move
(d4).  Then when I reply (d5 say) I get an error, the log is given
below.

I don't think I've done anything stupid!

Kevin

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xboard: StartChildProcess crafty xboard
Sending to first: Sending to first: level 40 5 0
Sending to first: bogus
Sending to first: time 30000
otim 30000
bogus
Received from first: EPD Kit revision date: 1996.04.21
Received from first: 27 tablebase file(s) found in the
/usr/users/kcm/SuppCrafty/TB directory.
Received from first: Chess
Received from first: kibitz Hello from Crafty v11.3 !
Received from first: 40 moves/5 minutes primary time control
Received from first: 40 moves/5 minutes secondary time control
Received from first: illegal move.
Received from first: illegal move.
Sending to first: white
go
Received from first: 1. ... d2d4
Interrupting first
Sending to first: time 29959
otim 29699
Sending to first: d7d5
Received from first: 1. ... d7d5
xboard: Illegal move "d7d5" from machine
Received from first: illegal move.
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From: Kevin Maguire <kcm@tca1.dl.ac.uk>
Subject: xboard / crafty / black
Date: 1996/12/11
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