Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 09:00:05 04/12/05
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On April 08, 2005 at 15:19:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 08, 2005 at 09:45:11, Steven Edwards wrote: >>On April 07, 2005 at 17:19:25, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >>>On April 07, 2005 at 16:59:33, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>>On April 07, 2005 at 13:40:23, Steven Edwards wrote: >>>>>On April 07, 2005 at 11:34:49, Marc Lacrosse wrote: >>>>Crafty already handles some non-PGN compliant things. for example zero-zero for >>>>castling rather than oh-oh. or 1.e4 rather than 1. e4 (missing space). >> >>A small note of caution: treating zero-zero as kingside castling will cause a >>problem in the admittedly rare case of a game that ended in a double forfeit. >>That's because PGN uses zero-zero as the game termitation indicator in that >>case. > >Hopefully that won't cause a problem, since I would assume no moves have been >played and 0-0 would be illegal. ;) The only exceptions to the above would be cases of a game in progress where the arbiter (or tournament director) had to penalize the players for getting into a fist fight or for similar misbehavior. And there are records of GMs kicking, spitting, and punching, although I don't recall any specific double forfeitures except for dual no-shows.
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