Help on winboard protocol

[kinderchocolate]

Hi,

I'm trying a winboard engine on the console. How do I play a game? I try this:

xboard
new
force
go

This only ask the computer to make a move. How do I actually play my own move? Thanks.

[Dann Corbit]

Get Arena and tell it to create a debug log. Then take two winboard engines and play a game. The result will be the full log of the Winboard protocol conversation.

[H.G.Muller]

Just type the move. Some engines want you to type "usermove" in front of the move. They let this know by saying "feature usermove=1" in reply to "protover 2".

To see the engine thinking, also type "post". (The might give only book moves initially, though.)

Often you also have to type a "level" and "time" command to make them reach meaningful depth, like

level 40 5 0
time 10000

Without it they might think they ran out of time, and respond instantly.