Author: John Merlino
Date: 15:08:50 01/07/03
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On January 07, 2003 at 16:03:10, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >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 How many people do you think would be using TheKing without paying for a copy of Chessmaster if there was no copy protection on the engine? One of the main reasons people buy Chessmaster is for the latest version of this great engine. If there was no copy protection on it, Johan would probably not get half of the money that he is making now from his brilliant and hard work. jm
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