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Using 3.1 with xboard

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From: Joe Peterson
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1992 14:44
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There is another consideration when using 3.1 with xboard.  xboard uses
the 4.0 type of setup for searchLevel, etc.  In other words, if you set
searchLevel to 1 in 4.0, it will do what you expect, but in 3.1 you
will instead get a time-per-move of 1 second, since xboard puts a 1 on
the gnuchess command line (this is the level in 4.0, but in 3.1 you have
to use the "depth" command to set searchLevel).

A way around this is to set put the search level (depth) in initString.
For example, setting initString to new\nbeen\ndepth\n1\n will set depth
to 1.  You might want to pass 9999 as the "searchLevel" so gnuchess will
have a time-per-move of 9999 (in 3.1).

				Joe Peterson
				joe@avs.com
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