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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