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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