Bug#725083: xboard: sends "level" command only to 1 engine

folkert folkert at vanheusden.com
Wed Oct 2 20:28:23 UTC 2013


> > invoking:
> > xboard -firstChessProgram ./dn.sh -secondChessProgram ./do.sh
> >
> > Then starting an engine match between these two with fixed time; each get 5 seconds per move.
> > Xboard then only sends to the "first chess program" the "level 40 5 0" command. This gives a mismatch.
> 
> I didn't check the messages sent by XBoard but I just tried with:
> 
>  xboard -firstChessProgram gnuchess -secondChessProgram fairymax
> 
> And then I launched a new game in two machines mode with 1 second per
> move. In this game, each program had 1 second to play and both programs
> followed this rule. Thus I'd say they both knew they only had 1 second
> per move. Am I missing something ? I'll report the bug upstream if you
> confirm the bug.

Hi,

Well, I had a chat with upstream as well and I'm not yet certain (after
the chat) if it really should work that way. For consistency and such I
would expect both should get that level-command but I shall investigate
some more.


Folkert van Heusden

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