From 7d3846b2f94e42609a2cf900d7f9fcbe289c0cfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Stanislav Ch. Nikolov" <stanislav.ltb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 23:24:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Make Console.WriteLine not work in Think()

---
 bot-scaffold/Main.cs | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bot-scaffold/Main.cs b/bot-scaffold/Main.cs
index 7efb404..151727e 100644
--- a/bot-scaffold/Main.cs
+++ b/bot-scaffold/Main.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
-MyBot bot = new MyBot();
+// Disable console output. Some competitors use stdout for debugging info, which confuses the
+// backend.
+var nullWriter = new StreamWriter(Stream.Null);
+var savedStdoutWriter = Console.Out;
+Console.SetOut(nullWriter);
+
+MyBot bot = new MyBot();
 
 while (true)
 {
@@ -17,5 +23,8 @@
 
 	// Think and write move to stdout.
 	ChessChallenge.API.Move move = bot.Think(apiBoard, apiTimer);
+
+	Console.SetOut(savedStdoutWriter);
 	Console.WriteLine($"{move}");
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+	Console.SetOut(nullWriter);
+}