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Crafty + Xboard

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From: Kevin Maguire
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 00:00
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I am having trouble using crafty and xboard.

Say I want to look at how craft uses it's endgame database to win the
KNBK ending.  So I have the position knight-bishop

> cat knight-bishop
1BN5/2K5/8/8/1k6/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
>


Now I want to start xboard with this position, me to play black, and
crafty to play and win with white.  So I

> xboard -lpf knight-bishop -fcp "crafty xboard" &

But when I choose Machine White, it makes the move Kc6, I reply Kc4,
then I get an error window "illegal move b4c4 from machine".  What am
I doing wrong?

I'm running xboard V3.4 patchlevel 1.3, crafty 9.28.  

Cheers
Kevin

PS.  On the subject of crafty, can I get it to play both sides from a
given position, when I (occaisionally) lose a game on FICS I'm often
of the view that I (unluckily) missed a forced win from some crucial
position and would like the machine demonstate exactly how and where:-)

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From: kcm@tca1.dl.ac.uk (Kevin Maguire)
Subject: Crafty + Xboard
Date: 1996/06/13
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