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Subject: Re: Help! UCI uses some strange chess notation??!!

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 07:00:18 04/19/02

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On April 19, 2002 at 09:40:09, Eran wrote:

>
>In programming for UCI, UCI uses long notation, but I've found a construct I've
>never seen before, a move represented as (for example):
>
>--h5
>
>As far as I understand (can't find this in the notation specs I have), it is
>some kind of short notation-hybrid. That is, it means "take the only
>possible piece and move it to h5". If you've seen it before, know what it
>means, and I'm wrong, please correct me!

Where are you seeing this?

UCI requires long algebraic notation. '--h5' is not correct long
algebraic AFAIK

--
GCP



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