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Subject: Re: Arena 1.99 Beta 2 is available for download............

Author: Christopher Conkie

Date: 17:11:53 01/20/06

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On January 20, 2006 at 15:59:59, A. Zanchetta wrote:

>Hi,
>
>>>>Any possibility of supporting the Novag Universal Chess Board in a future
>>>>release?
>...
>>Do you have the spec somewhere?
>
>9600 bauds, 8 data bits, no parity, one stop bit, no flow control
>
>I send the moves as 'Me2-e4' and promotions like 'Me7-e8/Q'
>
>I receive the moves as 'me2e4' (also with /Q for promotion)
>
>It send a 'T' for takeback, 'N' for new game (when all pieces are put back in
>their original position), 'J' for move now (lift the king of the colour not to
>move and put it back)
>
>that's it :-)
>
>The UCB is very easy to work with as it know chess rules. On the other hand, it
>cannot setup positions like the DGT does.
>
>
>Alain

Thanks, I'll pass this on. How is castling sent and recieved? I imagine ep is
just an ordinary move in the format above. Is castling done the same way?

Regards

Christopher



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