Stream output from playing XBoard engine?

[laniakea64]

Really appreciate this awesome library! It seems to have functionality for basically everything chess-related I can think of. Nice!

I would like to use python-chess to facilitate playing various chess engines against each other while streaming/capturing the engine outputs. Currently I am using engine.analysis() per #405 . It works well with UCI engines. But I would also like to add Crafty to the mix, but clock limit with engine.analysis() is not supported for XBoard engines -

python-chess/chess/engine.py

Lines 2254 to 2255 in 3c902fd

	if limit is not None and (limit.white_clock is not None or limit.black_clock is not None):
	raise EngineError("xboard analysis does not support clock limits")

And the code for XBoard engine analysis looks very different from the code for XBoard engine playing.

So how to stream info from a XBoard engine while it's playing?

Thanks!

[niklasf]

Hi. Mhh ... unfortunately I don't think it's currently possible. Of course that's an issue with the chess.engine abstraction, not the XBoard protocol itself, but I am not quite sure what's the best way to go about it.