disable pondering

[Folkert van Heusden]

Hi,

I'm trying to match my own engine with gnuchess via xboard.
For that I run:

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xboard -fcp my_program.sh -scp /usr/games/gnuchess -xponder

But as soon as the match starts, gnuchess starts to use 100% cpu!
I tried adding '-e' to the gnuchess commandline but that didn't help.

Any ideas?
(gnuchess 6.0.2 and xboard 4.6.2)

[jdart]

Should work. I think -xponder is unnecessary because the default is ponder off. You can use -debugMode true to verify that xboard is sending the "easy" command to the engine.

Don't know about 6.x but I have used Gnuchess 5.07 successfully and it is well behaved.

--Jon

[H.G.Muller]

Yes, but GNU Chess 6 is completely unrelated to 5.07. It is a Fruit 2.1 clone which runs Polyglot internally.