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Subject: Re: The King, Arena and WinBoard

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 23:03:25 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

Okay, let's forget about ChessMaster, and worry about Arena.  Under some
conditions, Arena apparently outputs castling using zeros instead of with letter
'O's.  Please consider this to be a bug report. :-)

Dave



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