Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:19:00 01/18/01
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On January 17, 2001 at 16:10:27, Wayde Beasley wrote: >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. SAN _IS_ a standard. e2-e4 is _not_. I changed because I don't like having _two_ pieces of code to produce output. One for GUIs that accept normal SAN moves, one for GUIs that are brain-dead and want e2e4 and such. I don't deliberately try to break contact with _any_ GUI. But I do want to see reasonable standards. If someone wants to connect to Crafty, they now have to use SAN. which is a _good_ thing since that is a standard move output format that is part of the PGN standard even. As long as we support crap, people will write GUIs that want crap...
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