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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:32:07 12/26/01

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On December 24, 2001 at 23:27:37, Christophe Theron wrote:

>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.

Have a look at the parser in Winboard for PGN games.

It can swallow an incredible amount of dirt, and spit out the tidied PGN.  Very
impressive defensive "coding for nincompoops."




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