How to force WinBoard to send egtpath command

[Sven]

I use WinBoard 4.4.2b and have implemented Gaviota tablebase access in my new engine which is a native WinBoard engine. The EGTB path is correctly set in the GUI dialog (D:\gtb), and the engine sends

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feature egt="gaviota"

at startup (including the quotes since otherwise WB rejects that feature command). According to the WB spec the GUI should now send

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egtpath gaviota D:\gtb

prior to each "new" command, but actually here it doesn't, now matter how often I repeat to start a new game.

Extract from winboard.debug:

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578 <first &#58; feature egt="gaviota"
578 >first &#58; accepted egt
578 <first &#58; feature done=1
578 >first &#58; accepted done
594 >first &#58; new
random
594 >first &#58; level 40 120 0
594 >first &#58; post
594 >first &#58; hard
594 >first &#58; easy
594 >first &#58; ping 1
594 <first &#58; pong 1

Any clue why? What am I missing? It is probably trivial ...

Sven

[michiguel]

I use WinBoard 4.4.2b and have implemented Gaviota tablebase access in my new engine which is a native WinBoard engine. The EGTB path is correctly set in the GUI dialog (D:\gtb), and the engine sends

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feature egt="gaviota"

at startup (including the quotes since otherwise WB rejects that feature command). According to the WB spec the GUI should now send

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egtpath gaviota D:\gtb

prior to each "new" command, but actually here it doesn't, now matter how often I repeat to start a new game.

Extract from winboard.debug:

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578 <first &#58; feature egt="gaviota"
578 >first &#58; accepted egt
578 <first &#58; feature done=1
578 >first &#58; accepted done
594 >first &#58; new
random
594 >first &#58; level 40 120 0
594 >first &#58; post
594 >first &#58; hard
594 >first &#58; easy
594 >first &#58; ping 1
594 <first &#58; pong 1

Any clue why? What am I missing? It is probably trivial ...

Sven

if I send
feature egt="gaviota"

I telll xboard what the path is with the following command line switch:

-egtFormats "gaviota:/media/MIGUEL2/gtb4/"

and I receive

egtpath gaviota /media/MIGUEL2/gtb4/

Maybe if you include that command line switch in winboard it should do the trick. You are telling winboard the path to EGTBs, which WB thinks is Nalimov.

Miguel

[hgm]

The GUI dialog only sets the Nalimov Path, as in Winboard_x it used to correspond to the (now deprecated) command-line option /defaultPathEGTB. I guess what is needed is some extra fields in the dialog that allow one to set path names & types for several types. At the moment the path can be set only through the /egtFormats option. But as this setting is stored in the winboard.ini file, you won have to do that too often, fortunately.

[Sven]

Many thanks for your quick replies, now it works for me with the /egtFormats command line switch.

Sven