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Subject: Re: Crafty 18.01 move notation change

Author: Wayde Beasley

Date: 13:10:27 01/17/01

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On January 16, 2001 at 09:32:55, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 16, 2001 at 07:41:48, Jason Williamson wrote:
>
>>On January 15, 2001 at 10:19:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On January 14, 2001 at 23:08:33, Wayde Beasley wrote:
>>>
>>>>It appears to me that Crafty 18.01 now posts moves to xboard in the short
>>>>algebraic notation rather than coordinate notation like crafty 17.14
>>>>
>>>>Is this an intended change?  Is there a tweak to make 18.01 go back to plain 'ol
>>>>"move d7d5"
>>>>
>>>>thx
>>>
>>>
>>>SAN is now _the_ way output is displayed, since xboard/winboard now support
>>>this.  I never liked e2e4 and such nonsense, but included it to be compatible
>>>with xboard.  That is no longer needed.
>>>
>>>I'm not sure why you would want to "go back" to the broken form of output,
>>>particularly when you don't see it..
>>
>>
>>simple it breaks the chessmaster connectivity.  :)
>
>
>I would assume it is trivial to make Chessmaster handle SAN, since it supposedly
>handles PGN just fine.  And PGN uses SAN...


I can think of NO reason to change the code for sending moves to the GUI.  This
is not end-user stuff.  All it does is break connectivity with everything except
Winboard.  What's the REAL point of this change?  Why not facilitate the
Chessmaster GUI users?  Why did you go to the extra trouble of tinkering with
that part of the Crafty code?  It seems absolutely pointless.  But, hell, it's
your program right?  And you can do what you want with it.  Just wish Crafty
would stick standards instead apparently trying to deliberately break
connectivity with non-Tim Mann programs like Chessmaster.



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