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Subject: Re: winboard edit cmd and castling rights

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 07:32:40 03/08/04

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On March 08, 2004 at 09:05:06, Aivaras Juzvikas wrote:

>finally after a good while of debugging i managed to hunt down a bug and im
>really puzzled here. how does one determine castling rights w/o knowing the
>sequence of previous moves. i know i should be using fen stuff but the problem
>is that on fics if u resume an adjourned game the position is fed to engine by
>edit cmd. so what do u do if king and rooks are in their places?castling
>possible or not?please enlighten me, thnx in advance

If you implemented winboard protocol version 2 and implemented the command
setboard, you should be getting a fen string.
Unfortunately there is no way of transferring the castling rights (or En-Passant
rights) with the edit command.

Richard.



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