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Subject: Re: How to parse moves?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:34:27 01/03/99

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On January 03, 1999 at 18:01:54, Gordon Swobe wrote:

>I'm looking for code or advice for writing code to parse short algebraic
>notation to long algebraic, e.g., from "1.e4 e5" to "1.e2-e4 e7-e5". This will
>be for use in a PGN reader that I am writing in C++/MFC.
>
>Any advice, code, resources, etc would be appreciated. Thanks!
>
>-gts


the best way is to write some code to generate all legal moves for a
position, and then use the algebraic input to weed out moves from this
list, hopefully ending up with only one move left.  This is the simplest
way to do this I know of...

• Re: How to parse moves? Gordon Swobe 19:41:38 01/03/99
  • Re: How to parse moves? Robert Hyatt 21:02:11 01/03/99
    • Re: How to parse moves? Michael D. Sharpe 22:10:09 01/03/99
      • Re: How to parse moves? Gordon Swobe 03:16:03 01/04/99

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