Polyglot 1.4 Update

[MikeB]

XBoard already does present Polyglot options as checkboxes / spins / strings etc., in the Engine Settings dialogs. Polyglot should declare this option to the GUI, however; the latter cannot smell whether you are running a Polyglot with a 50-move option or not. Polyglot only declares options that have the XBSEL flag set in the option table, and you did not set it for the option you added.

I am not sure if this option is of sufficient general interest to deserve being displayed in the Engine Settings, however. Actually I have my doubts whether it deserves to be in Polyglot at all.

Maybe not , I'm often the Lone Ranger...I have my solution and simply offered it to others. Edit: also thanks for the xbsel flag tip.

[hgm]

Note that Polyglot also has an option OnlyWbOptions, which you can set to False in order tomake it show all its options in XBoard (i.e. even those not marked as XBSEL).

And to set options through the ini file there is no reason to mess with the -adapterCommand; you can edit the default file for the engine in the ~/.polyglot directory. (It could be that this is only created when you press Polyglot Save in the Settings dialog.)

[MikeB]

Thanks