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Subject: Re: Utility needed for testing legality of sets of epd positions

Author: Les Fernandez

Date: 10:00:18 12/04/01

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On December 03, 2001 at 16:33:46, Koundinya Veluri wrote:

>On December 03, 2001 at 16:16:40, Les Fernandez wrote:
>
>>I am wondering if anyone knows of a utility that is available that will crunch
>>through a file of epd positions and check them if they are legal or not.  I know
>>I can run engines like crafty to do this but that requires (I believe) doing
>>each position one at a time.  Perhaps someone has created a utility to basically
>>filter out the bad ones.  Another possibility is if it exists as an active X or
>>OCX that basically just outputs a boolean value (true or false) as to whether or
>>not the position is legal I could take that and write a little code fragment to
>>do the rest.
>>
>>Thanks
>
>Hi,
>
>You can do this in King of Kings console version (kke.exe) by typing:
>
>annotate epd "epdfile.epd" "textfile.txt" acs 0;
>
>Go to the end of the text file and see in the illegal section for a list of
>illegal positions. Not exactly a special utility, but it can be used like one.
>
>http://www.kingofkingschess.com/kingofkings/
>
>Regards,
>Koundinya

Hi Koundinya,

Thanks for your help.  I downloaded your app and tried doubleclicking on it to
launch it but it did not work.  Do we need to have Winboard set up to do what I
am looking to do and if not can you suggest to me what I need to do.  BTW I sent
you an email but figure you havent checked your mail.

Thanks,

Les



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