Author: Ralph Patriquin
Date: 06:05:56 03/19/02
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On March 19, 2002 at 02:10:48, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >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 Thanks Odd Gunnar! So the WinBoard promotion standard is lowercase letters? Yace doesn't seem to mind, but I guess it just tolerates Capitals. By the way, your little program is great! Thanks for writing it. I'm sure I'll be using your WB UCI program next! Ralph
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