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Update link to book description

The old link was not working anymore, and replaced by a link to my
own website (which also describes the variant extensions to the format).

Add ini.c to MSVC makefile

Update man page

The newly added options for resign and draw handling, and display
of tabebase hits are described in the manual.

Correct manual entry on BookLearn

This was saying the option was a noop!

Change default UCI name to "unknown"

The old default for uninitialized strings, "<empty>", was inconvenient
because it contained characters that are not allowed in filenames,
and WinBoard constructs the proposed name for saving PGN from it.
(Which then tickles a bug in the Windows file-browse dialog.)

Switch to new tbhits protocol

The extended info is now sent in "%2d %4.0f %d\t" format.

Relay fail-lo/fail-high info

The UCI upperbound and lowerbound keywords with a score now lead to suffixing
of the PV with ? or !, respectively.

Implement protocol extension for Thinking Output

The ShowTbHits option is now extended to also contain engine speed (knps)
and selective depth. These are now also printed during ponder.

Implement support for Syzygy EGTs

Add PG option to show tablebase hits

The new option Polyglot ShowTbHits makes Polyglot prefix all PVs with
the number of EGT hits between braces.

Allow UCI engines to emit WB commands wrapped as info strings

Any info-string starting ith the keyword 'xboard' will be forwarded to
the GUI (after stripping the 'xboard') literally.

Limit UCI Hash setting to engine-specified maximum

Update Changelog, spec file

Update format description

Stuff about learning that is no longer true in recent Polyglots was
removed, as was the stuff about zero weights. A paragraph was added
on how XBoard extends the format foruse in other variants.

Delete files no longer part of project

The .cpp files have long since been converted to .c files, and some
C++-specific .h files were also still around. Only files that are also
in the Debian package for 1.4.67b are left now.

Fully implement exclude feature

Polyglot now understands the commands "exclude|include MOVE|all".
The list of excluded moves is cleared on "undo" or any move, and can be
interrogated through the "bk" command (when book is off), printing an
asterisk in front of each excluded move. An "exclude all" is deferred
until there are again enabled moves. New searches are only started
when the list of excluded moves actually changes.

Alter version number to 2.0.1

Add option to exclude moves

The proposed WB protocol command "kill MOVE" is implemented to exclude
the given move from analysis. For the time being (as long as XBoard does
not implement this), a Polyglot option "exclude move" is also supplied,
so the user can exclude moves "by hand" with the Engine Settings dialog.

Add option to allow Polyglot to accept draw offers

For engines that do not support the UCI_DrawOffers option, Polyglot
can accept a draw offer based on a contempt score.

Add option to resign only without queen

Enable book learning

Also use the learn info during probing.

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