Re: analyzing games

Svetlana Tkachenko schreef op 1/10/2015 om 8:35 PM:
> Joshua Pettus wrote:
>> The only problem is that having the -zp switch enabled makes the fics admins jumpy since they detect the engine loaded on the server with your non computer account.
>>
>> -Josh
> This is correct: the engine also started /playing for me/ with this setup and I had to exit before it figures out how to move. (-zp option is not in 0.8.0 for some reason, only in 0.7.x).
>
> Now I'm not at all sure how to analyze games while connected to the FICS server, though.
Indeed, anayzing observed ICS games only seems to work in zippy mode, 
and then the engine also plays. Of course it is understandable that in 
order to analyze you would need an engine, and when in plain -ics mode, 
(i.e. not -zp), no engine will be loaded.

I guess what you would want is a mode where the engine does not play, 
but can be set analyzing the current position when you are observing or 
examining an ICS game. Such a mode is currently not supported. It does 
sound like a good idea to have one, though.