Author: Wayde Beasley
Date: 11:36:27 01/18/01
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On January 18, 2001 at 10:19:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Okay okay . . . I guess all those rumours at NSA about a sabotage are just that: rumours.
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