Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:01:13 12/15/00
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On December 15, 2000 at 03:45:11, Tim Mann wrote: >On December 14, 2000 at 17:49:02, John Merlino wrote: > >>On December 14, 2000 at 01:28:21, Tim Mann wrote: >> >>>On December 13, 2000 at 21:05:54, John Merlino wrote: >>> >>>>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. >>> >>>I can put a warning to this effect in the next xboard/winboard protocol spec if >>>you'd like. I've already put in a mention of ChessBase's extensions to the spec >>>and a link to their Web page. >>> >>> --Tim >> >>Forget my previous reply. I understand what you're saying now. You would just >>put a warning in your spec to the effect that if you want your engine to work in >>Chessmaster, you should send coordinate, and this would be similar in nature to >>the Chessbase warning. That would be fine, although it may be premature, as I'm >>not SURE that the development team has ruled out supporting SAN or not. >> >>jm > >Well, if the current shipping product doesn't support SAN, then the warning >seems worthwhile, even if the next version does end up supporting it. I can >phrase it to say that it might be supported in the future; something like >"Warning: if you want your engine to work with ChessMaster 8000, you need to use >pure coordinate notation (e.g., e2e4) in the move command, though future >versions of ChessMaster might relax this restriction." > >Just to be clear, this is meant to help more engines work with CM, definitely >not to make CM look bad. I might have required coordinate notation in the move >command from the start, if I'd been thinking in terms of making it easier to >write other GUIs, not just about specifying what xboard/winboard itself >supports. > > --Tim All sounds good to me and the dev team. Yes, the only problem with SAN (admittedly a minor one) is the one that crops up regarding different languages (and it even comes up here sometimes). I don't know if the patch for CM8000 is going to support SAN, but I suspect the NEXT version of Chessmaster will. So your warning is properly worded. Thanks for your time, jm p.s. Just in case you didn't know, the dev team put your name in their list of "Special Thanks" in the credits (along with Dr. Hyatt and Frank Quisinsky). They very much appreciate your efforts....
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