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Subject: Re: Posting bogus positions is annoying

Author: pavel

Date: 09:11:18 03/11/00

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On March 10, 2000 at 16:28:57, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Please don't do that.  Sometimes, I may have a computer run all night on a
>position because someone says it is important.
>
>Then, on the next day, they say, "Oops.  I really meant <foo> not <bar>."
>
>That is really unnecessary.  You don't have to understand EPD to post the
>positions correctly.  Get Manfred Rosenboom's excellent Epd2diag tool (or the
>javascript version if you don't have a Win32 type machine).  You can load PGN
>and it will automatically convert the PGN to correct EPD.  Or you can edit by
>hand and just set up the board how you want.  Then it will create the correct
>EPD string for that.
>
>There is really no reason to post a bad string and ask people to solve it when
>it is so simple to create a good one.
>
>Go here:
>http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/2640/chess.htm
>
>Look at "My Special Pages" and the 2nd and 3rd entries will be the tools I
>describe.


thanks dann this utility is really kool ;)
pavel



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