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

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 13:51:24 03/19/02

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On March 19, 2002 at 16:22:23, Shane Hudson 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, 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)

Hi.

Yes, most amateur wb-engines is actually made for human input :) with all error
in writing. I guess The King wasn't meant to be used outside CM.

When you check take a look at the SAN too.
I don't know if you have anything wrong there but I had a bug in it.
I did send FIDE's standard moves instead of the right pgn-standard.
There is some differences (g8Q -> g8=Q).

Odd Gunnar



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