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Subject: Re: Possible bug in Chessmaster/The King?

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 23:10:48 03/18/02

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On March 19, 2002 at 00:17:41, Ralph Patriquin wrote:

>I'm running The King in Scid using InBetween.I've run into a problem where
>The King doesn't understand pawn promotions. Here's an example from the Scid
>engine log:
>
>Scid  : exit
>Scid  : force
>Scid  : g7g8Q
>Scid  : analyze
>Engine: Illegal move: g7g8Q
>
>Is there a different syntax that The King does understand? Is the above (g7g8Q)
>the standard way of sending a promotion to a WinBoard engine?
>
>P.S. I'm using The King 3.12d with CM_8777 personality settings.
>
>Ralph

The bug is in SCid.
The correct wb-move is g7g8q.

This problem was the problem the made me make Inbetween :)

you can add

[Client2Server]
Q := q
R := r
B := b
N := n

to Inbetween.ini
and send a bugreport to scid's author.

Odd Gunnar



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