hint mode has ADD; Crafty sees a shiny and bails after 9th move, peeks back around 18th move

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. start a game against computer or on FICS, using crafty in hint mode
2. at move 9 for black, crafty quits hinting.
3. crafty returns once to hint every 10 or so moves.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Hint mode needs to work for every move as needed.

Does it happen every time?
yes

What version of the product are you using?
Staunton v0.10 alpha 2 on Ubuntu 8.10 32-bit, using stable version of
Crafty (20.14)

Did you use an installed version of PyChess or did you run in from a
tarball/svn?
I'm using the .deb package from 
http://www.gnomefiles.org/download.php?soft_id=1704&where=http%3A%2F%2Fpychess.g
ooglecode.com%2Ffiles%2Fpychess_0.10alpha2-2_all.deb

Please provide any additional information below.

Please attach the latest pychess logfile. It's in a hidden folder, under
your homedirectory, named ".pychess/"

Original issue reported on code.google.com by PocketAc...@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2009 at 8:14

Attachments:

• 2009-02-16_13-53-31.log
• 2009-02-16_13-53-37.log

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I should note that both crafty and gnuchess work fine with xboard and eboard.
gnuchess works great with pychess.

Original comment by PocketAc...@gmail.com on 17 Feb 2009 at 1:00

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Thanks for reporting your problem,

What do you mean by 'Crafty sees a shiny'?

Original comment by lobais on 17 Feb 2009 at 2:47

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Just a humorous way of saying Crafty seems to have Attention Deficit Disorder 
in hint
mode and doesn't stay focused on the task at hand.

I noticed the same crafty configuration worked fine in the previous version of 
pychess.

Original comment by PocketAc...@gmail.com on 17 Feb 2009 at 3:05

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:P I guess I should spend more time studying English slang, rather than all this
computer stuff.
I did however find a problem in the regular expressions used to recognize
analyze-moves, which made PyChess see two plus ciphers numbers as chess moves, 
which
were later judged invalid.
I've committed a fix, can you test if it works?

Original comment by lobais on 17 Feb 2009 at 3:45

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yes i can, no problem

Original comment by PocketAc...@gmail.com on 17 Feb 2009 at 5:16

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Excellent.
Cheers.

Original comment by lobais on 17 Feb 2009 at 8:44

• Changed state: Fixed