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Subject: Re: christmas: 1995 cstal versus todays chess programs...

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 20:27:37 12/24/01

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On December 24, 2001 at 23:15:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 24, 2001 at 16:50:47, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>i am sitting here, its christmas. and while it is a little boring, i am doing
>>some old positions on old hardware with all kind of software.
>>how is your todays software and hardware doing in a position from 1995 ????
>>
>
>What program outputs this broken pgn?  zero-zero is _not_ the way to
>indicate a castle move.  :)



Right. I came accross a number of ill-formed PGNs like these when I was writing
my PGN support, and I ended up adding "0-0" (zero-zero) and "0-0-0"
(zero-zero-zero) in my PGN parser! :)

So I output the correct form, but I also accept the incorrect one when I read a
PGN.



    Christophe



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