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Subject: Re: The King, Arena and WinBoard

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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