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

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 06:08:11 03/19/02

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On March 19, 2002 at 09:05:56, Ralph Patriquin wrote:

>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

Yes indeed your programs are really cool, thank's for putting in the time and
effort!!

Jonas



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