Author: frank phillips
Date: 05:22:19 09/08/99
After struggling with EGTBs for a while, I finally got them working with help and suggestion from one or two people here - thanks. Thanks also to Eugene for making them available in the first place. My last difficulty was caused by an inability to read, forgetting advice on examination technique about reading the question first before answering - rather than assuming it says what you expect it to. Failure to solve this position was frustrating 8/5p2/2k5/K7/8/1P6/8/8 b - - 0 1 And made me think that my implementation was not working until I realised that Eugene really meant sqEnP=XX; //square of en-passant capture, IF IT'S POSSIBLE, or XX ie that the stm can actually make an enpassant capture. Not just that there is an enpassant square. Just in case others struggling out there also do not read what is actually written, as well. Come to think of it, now I know, the capitals are a pretty big hint........... Frank Ps the solution is Kd5/Kd4 then f7-f5. My program was seeing the king moves as wins but could not find the pawn move.
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