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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