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Subject: Re: SCID and chess variants

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 06:33:17 07/23/02

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On July 22, 2002 at 19:10:05, Shane Hudson wrote:

>On July 22, 2002 at 16:01:11, Andrzej Nagorko wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>  I tried loading PGN file with bunch of suicide chess games into SCID, but it
>>complained about illegal moves and truncated games to point where illegal (in
>>regular chess sense) move occured. Is there option to disable this legality
>>check in SCID? I was unable to find anything in docs.
>>
>>Andrzej
>
>Scid only allows legal standard chess games, no variants like suicide or
>crazyhouse. I suspect other chess database apps have the same restriction.

Yes, as far as I know you are correct. The only program that I personally know
of that supports all these variants is BlitzIn. I'm sure there are others but I
couldn't point them out. One possibilty would be to go to a site dedicated to
Chess Variants as I'm sure it would point out existing options.

                                          Albert

>
>This could be changed in a future version, but would require some fairly
>major changes to the move encoding format (e.g. for compactness, the move
>encoding currently assumes each side has at most 16 pieces and always has
>a king) so variant support is not a high priority at this stage.
>
>Cheers,
>Shane



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