Author: Mike S.
Date: 07:50:08 06/25/03
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On June 25, 2003 at 01:04:32, Russell Reagan wrote: >(...) >I think if the king and rooks are on their original squares, then it assumes >they haven't moved and gives them castling rights. I would assume that it would >be right about that most of the time, because how often does a position arise >where the king and both rooks have moved from their original squares and back >again? But it is sufficient when *only the King* has moved before, to loose the castling rights. That's not too unusual IMO. I notice it myself then and when in blitz games, when I want to castle but can't :-) because I forgot that there was something like Ke8xf7, and later Kf7-e8... WinBoard 4.2.6 shows the same behaviour on my computer: 3qk3/8/8/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR b KQ e3 0 1 I've noticed that it adds the castling right even immediatly after pasting the position into it: 3qk3/8/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQ - 0 1 This may be related to a "simplification" of the edit position mode... I don't see an option there to set the castling rights. That can affect test position results determined with WinBoard! Regards, M.Scheidl
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