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Hello,

I am currently using WinBoard 4.7.3a and the engine Stockfish 170514 (64-bit). I am wondering why I see a number output to the FICS console every time the engine makes a move. For instance, it will begin with the number "1" and this will be repeated each move for about 10 moves. Unpredictably, it will change to the number "2" for a while and then "3" and so on. Sometimes, it will only print the number "1", though. Below is an example of what I see in the console after some moves (including moves by the book controlled by WinBoard):

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

I noticed that it does not do this when I am running the engine Sjeng 11.2 on FICS. This issue is not a real problem for me, but I find it curious and somewhat annoying.

If anyone can help me stop this behavior, I would very much appreciate it.

Thank you,

damo

This is the number of listeners to the engine's kibitz messages. The ICS will reply to those with someting like '(told 3)' on a separate line, plus a new prompt. But to make it less verbose, WinBoard only keeps the number.

You can stop it by switching off auto-kibitz.

Ahh, thank you for clarifying that for me!