[Scid-users] Re: [Fwd: crafty, xboard-compatible? Not really!]

[Shane H. <sh...@co...>]

On 2002.04.14 00:45 Michael Thomas wrote:
[Stuff from Tim Mann about Crafty and the WinBoard/XBoard standard.]

Thanks for posting that, it helped me to figure out why some people
are having problems with crafty in Scid, but I am still not sure
exactly how it can happen. It seems crafty must either miss the
"xboard" command sent by Scid (that is always the first command Scid
sends to any engine; maybe having a slow startup because of the
contents of the crafty startup file is the cause), or Crafty somehow
forgets xboard mode was on. But I cannot reproduce this behavior.

The easiest fix is to just change the Scid source code so it
always sends the "xboard" command immediately before "force" if
the engine is crafty, just to make sure it is in xboard mode.
I'll add this for the final 3.3 release.

Cheers,
Shane