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Subject: Re: CM8000 Winboard question.

Author: John Merlino

Date: 18:05:54 12/13/00

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On December 13, 2000 at 20:20:39, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>>Yes, this will fix problems with many engines, but not all of them. Is there any
>>work being done on fixing the problems with the others? The following engines
>>don't work for me after trying all possible solutions.
>>Yace, Phalanx, SOS, Nejmet, Green Light, Tao, Exchess 4.01, Francesca are the
>>main engines that i would like to get working.
>
>I believe, the next version of Yace should work correctly wit CM.
>I have no means to test it myself, but it was reported to work now.
>If you want a version, that probably works, contact me by email.
>For Yace, and I guess for many other engines too, the problem is, that
>To me it seem, that CM will only accept move in coordinate notation - which in
>my opinion is in contradiction tho the Winboard protocol.
>
>Regards,
>Dieter

Actually, this is correct. At this time, CM8000 will ONLY accept moves in
coordinate notation. The development team knows of this, and I have no idea if
they intend to include support for other unambiguous notations, such as SAN.
I'll keep you posted.

jm




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