Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 13:03:10 01/07/03
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On January 07, 2003 at 15:27:55, Ralph Patriquin wrote: >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 Hi Ralph, thanks for your kind words and it's good to have programmers (here Yace programmer Dieter Bürssner) which are give all the time a good answere of questions. I got in the last year many mails about questions with TheKing under Arena but I have no interest on this for user bad and complicated copy protection. I am not a fan from copy protections. The group of users is not big enough create such things. Best Frank
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