Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 14:20:48 12/17/00
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On December 15, 2000 at 14:01:13, John Merlino wrote: >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.... A very little bit, really a little bit not more ! Not my programs, I am a WB tourney player not more ... :-) The webpage is the work from a lot of people with helped me in the last 15 months. On the other hand, to stand in the list is not bad :-) Thanks ! Best Frank
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