Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:47:37 10/24/02
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On October 23, 2002 at 21:40:23, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On October 23, 2002 at 15:25:04, Colin Frayn wrote: > >>Then I suddenly realised. Carlos had been sending strings to the engine of the >>form; >>3r4/5b2/1k1r1p2/Np5p/4P1p1/2R1KPP1/2P4P/R7 w >> >>(i.e. missing off the last two dashes.) The full string should be >>3r4/5b2/1k1r1p2/Np5p/4P1p1/2R1KPP1/2P4P/R7 w - - >> >>but of course the shortened version should still be valid. > >Why do you say that? All those fields are required. The EPD parsing code I >ahve written throws an exception on your first example. Sounds like that would >have saved you a lot of grief! If castling is impossible, it's not hard to figure out what the flags are. Leaving them out is a common mistake. Similarly, Winboard will accept all sorts of goo as PGN. It just silently eats the ugly crud and turns it into a clean version.
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