New Fairy-Max (4.8L) as demo for WB protocol extensions
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:55 pm
I adapted the WB interface of Fairy-Max to make it a demo engine for some of the WB protocol extensions that will be implemented in WinBoard / XBoard 4.4.0.
In particular, Fairy-Max now sends option features for implementing a Resign Threshold and interactively changing the name of its game-definition file, and a button for clearing its hash table. In addition there are some dummy options that are ignored, but can be used to test GUIs implementing the option feature. (So far Fairy-Max is the only native WinBoard engine to present option in the Engine #1 Settings dialog of WinBoard / XBoard.)
The hash-table size of Fairy-Max could be set interactively with the aid of the WB "memory" command (from the Options->UCI... menu, which will be named Options->Global Settings... in future WB versions) already for a long time.
Links:
Windows: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/fairy.zip
Ubuntu: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/fairym ... 2_i386.deb
In particular, Fairy-Max now sends option features for implementing a Resign Threshold and interactively changing the name of its game-definition file, and a button for clearing its hash table. In addition there are some dummy options that are ignored, but can be used to test GUIs implementing the option feature. (So far Fairy-Max is the only native WinBoard engine to present option in the Engine #1 Settings dialog of WinBoard / XBoard.)
The hash-table size of Fairy-Max could be set interactively with the aid of the WB "memory" command (from the Options->UCI... menu, which will be named Options->Global Settings... in future WB versions) already for a long time.
Links:
Windows: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/fairy.zip
Ubuntu: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/fairym ... 2_i386.deb