Spike 1.1 kibitzing

[Philippe Etard]

Hello,
I use Winboard 4.2.7 and Spike 1.1 as a computer account on a chess server. Spike always kibitzes the score, PV etc to the opponent and watchers.
This annoying for the opponent, so How can I prevent it to kibitz ?
Thanks.

Philippe

[Will Singleton]

Hello,
I use Winboard 4.2.7 and Spike 1.1 as a computer account on a chess server. Spike always kibitzes the score, PV etc to the opponent and watchers.
This annoying for the opponent, so How can I prevent it to kibitz ?
Thanks.

Philippe

There are a couple things you can try. Do "set allowkib 0", which should convert all kibs to whispers. You could also do "+alias kibitz blah" which should turn your kibs into something not recognized by ICC.

Will

[Ralf Schäfer]

Hi,

Spike is only kibitzing when using the wb protocol, so another solution may be to use Spike as UCI engine with Polyglot.

I've never tested it, but I think in Polyglot you can configure many things like, for example, the kibitzing output

Ralf

[Philippe Etard]

Hi,

Spike is only kibitzing when using the wb protocol, so another solution may be to use Spike as UCI engine with Polyglot.

I've never tested it, but I think in Polyglot you can configure many things like, for example, the kibitzing output

Ralf

Thanks Ralf. As Spike is also a UCI engine, I run it with ChessPartner GUI, no need to use polyglot which is in fact a UCI2WB adaptator.

Philippe