Author: Greg Lazarou
Date: 13:04:43 01/03/99
A simple question : I'm building a chess engine with a friend and I am trying to understand/interpret the Winboard/xboard protocol (we have a bet with a couple of folks at work that we can build a chess playing program that can beat them by the end of January :-). Specifically my question is regarding the editing of a board position: when setting up a position via the edit commands I see no way in the protocol to tell the engine whether castling or en-passant are allowed. I also don't see it in the UI of Winboard. What should the engine assume? I'm guessing that if the King and Rooks are in their original positions that castling could be assumed enabled and en-passant is never enabled - these seem like reasonable defaults but how can this be missing from the interface? What does Fritz do with its Winboard adaptor? Greg Lazarou
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