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

Author: Shane Hudson

Date: 13:22:23 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, I've just fixed Scid for version 3.3 so it sends
promotion moves with the promotion piece type as a lower
case letter. I probably missed this since most programs
appear to accept the promotion piece in upper or lower case.

Cheers,
Shane Hudson (author of Scid)



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