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Subject: (but, and)EPT is better, And pasteing

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 14:34:28 08/13/99

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On August 13, 1999 at 15:46:37, Pete Galati wrote:

>On August 13, 1999 at 13:05:16, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>I can't figure out how to set up board positions with Phalanx.  Anyone got some
>>clues for a clueless one?  I'm in desperate need of a clue-by-four.
>>:-(
>
>What I did was make a FEN position file using Winboard (but I think the
>proceedure is descibed in crafty.doc), it's much like ept positions:
>
>rnbqkbnr/ppp1pppp/8/8/2pP4/2N5/PP2PPPP/R1BQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
>
>now I typed that into Phalanx (tedious) and hit Enter, then typed GO to start
>the search (& enter).
>
>Admitedly I've only tried this with the one I compiled for Dos, but I'm sure it
>works the same. It takes a bit to figure it out, and it doesn't want to display
>the position that you worked you butt off to type in FEN style, but it will
>display the position after the search.
>
>Pete

I found that I can paste a FEN position into a Dos window by clicking in the
uper left hand corner, and selecting edit, and then paste, and it'll paste ascii
text copied out of for example Wordpad so that's makes getting the FEN into
Phalanx much easier. And I guess I was wrong, Phalanx will display the board
right after you put a FEN position in. So I don't know what I was doing
diferently earlier today.

And Phalanx will also allow you to use ept positions and I think dispite the
face that it mentions FEN, I think EPT (which you have a load of already) works
better without any arguement

Pete



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