tends to work poorly because it is dull when shouted in isolated
250-character chunks.
- --Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>
+ --Tim Mann
http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html
* * *
If you have problems building or running Zippy, see the rest of the
xboard documentation: INSTALL documents the configure program, while
-READ_ME and xboard.man (or xboard.doc) document xboard itself, and
+READ_ME and xboard.man (or xboard.txt) document xboard itself, and
WinBoard.hlp documents WinBoard. FAQ answers some frequently asked
questions. The file engine-intf.html contains some information about
the interface between xboard/WinBoard and GNU Chess (or other chess
the middle (as with resuming from adjournments or switching opponents
in a simul).
+As noted under -zippyPlay above, you should have -getMoveList on to
+ensure that the engine knows the game history after switching boards
+and thus handles draw by repetition and by the 50-move rule correctly.
+It should, however, also work to turn off this option to speed things
+up and reduce network bandwidth, if you don't mind the engine
+occasionally failing to see draw possibilities. Unfortunately,
+though, with Crafty 18.3 (and probably other versions too) as the
+engine, users trying this have experienced Crafty crashes. This looks
+to me like a Crafty bug, but I wasn't able to reproduce it, so it
+remains a mystery.
+
+
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