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Subject: Re: The King, Arena and WinBoard

Author: Ralph Patriquin

Date: 12:27:55 01/07/03

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On January 07, 2003 at 08:25:22, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

>On January 07, 2003 at 02:08:19, Ralph Patriquin wrote:
>
>>I ran into a problem running The King 3.23 in Arena. It seems that The King
>>sends castling with zeros and not letter O's (0-0 and 0-0-0 vs O-O and O-O-O).
>>Arena's PV display doesn't like this and gets messed up, cutting off at the
>>castle move and displaying illegal moves at that point. I'm running The King
>>through InBetween, so to solve the problem translated 0's to O's for Arena. The
>>ironic thing is that Arena displays castling using zeros in both its PV and game
>>listing!
>>
>>Scid handles 0's, O's, or a mixture of the two with no problem. What is the
>>WinBoard protocol on this?
>>
>>Ralph
>
>Hi,
>
>I have no interest to give support for engines under Arena with copy protection
>or for engines which run under Arena with adapter. Arena have 1:1 WB1, WB2 and
>UCI support and don't need any adapter.
>
>Best
>Frank

Well, technically the copy protection (opk number) has nothing to do with this
problem, as any engine that uses zeros for castling would run into this. Dieter
Buerssner mentioned in the previous post that this is an ambiguity in the
WinBoard protocol. Just something to think about. Translating with InBetween
solves the problem for me, so I'm happy :). By the way, thanks for a great
contribution to Computer Chess freeware! Arena is already very nice and sure to
get better!

Ralph



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