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Subject: Re: arena: its not a bug, its a feature (or: how I spend the last hour)

Author: Tim Foden

Date: 10:42:45 12/05/03

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On December 04, 2003 at 21:43:18, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I spend the last hour debugging my new move generation in this position which I
>had set up in Arena.
>
>[d]rN2k1qr/pppbbppp/7P/1P2p3/4n3/BNn1PNP1/P1PPQPBp/R3K2R w KQkq - 0 1
>
>For some strange reasons I found out, some arrays are overwritten :-))
>
>Just as a warning to you guys, that not something similar happens to you. Note I
>am not critisizing Arena, it is quite ok that it accepts illegal positions (but
>maybe a little warning dialog box ... ?)
>
>Georg

Conversely, maybe you should check these things in your FEN parser?  :-))

GLC...
>fen rN2k1qr/pppbbppp/7P/1P2p3/4n3/BNn1PNP1/P1PPQPBp/R3K2R w KQkq
Error (invalid FEN): rN2k1qr/pppbbppp/7P/1P2p3/4n3/BNn1PNP1/P1PPQPBp/R3K2R w
KQkq

Cheers, Tim.

• Re: arena: its not a bug, its a feature (or: how I spend the last hour) Georg v. Zimmermann 10:50:36 12/05/03

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