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Subject: Some EPD reminders

Author: Steven J. Edwards

Date: 12:53:16 05/05/99


A recent visit to a website (Dann Corbit's CAP page) had some sample EPD
output records purportedly generated by Rebel 10.0.  If these are genuine,
then there are a couple of problems:

First, the EPD c0 (comment level zero) through c9 (comment level nine)
operations always take a single parameter, and that parameter is always a
string.  E.g.,

    c3 "This is a correct EPD comment operation"; (good)

    c4 This is a broken EPD operation;            (BAD)

Second, chess move parameters, wherever they may appear, are always expressed in
SAN and never in coordinate, long algebraic, decscriptive, morse code, etc.
E.g.,

    pv e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6;             (good)

    pv e2-e4 e7-e5 Ng1-f3 Nb8-c6; (BAD)

-- Steven




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