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Subject: Re: Restarting an adjourned game on a chess server through Winboard.

Author: James Robertson

Date: 11:24:21 02/18/99

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On February 18, 1999 at 09:20:36, Andrew Williams wrote:

>On February 18, 1999 at 03:27:52, James Robertson wrote:
>
>>On February 18, 1999 at 00:37:05, James Robertson wrote:
>>
>>>The title says most of it. What commands will winboard send, and how should they
>>>be parsed?
>>>
>>
>>Actually, the title doesn't. Better rephrased as "Finishing an adjourned game on
>>a chess server through Winboard."
>>
>>James
>
>Hi James,
>
>xboard has two ways of doing this (I'm assuming Winboard will be the same).
>One way is to send all the moves of the game so far, so your program can
>effectively play all the moves in "force" mode, just as if you were making
>them with the mouse. When xboard has finished sending them, you're ready to
>go. This is the approach my program uses. The other approach involves (I
>think) the edit board functionality. This is a bit more difficult to get
>right, becuase of castling rights etc. It's all in the man pages supplied
>with xboard, and I think in the zippy readme file as well.
>
>Good luck with your program.
>
>Andrew

Thanks. I guess I don't have to add any funky stuff if I plan to use the first
method!!

James



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