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Subject: Re: Autoplayer used to tell other prog. what to do

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 04:51:32 09/20/99

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>>Why can't your chess program (you could have the user set it to "autoplayer
>>mode")  ignore all characters which arn't valid moves ?
>
>It's not the weird characters that is the problem but the volume. A chess
>program expects 4-5 characters for move input but not 2 or 3 thousand.
>All kind of trouble can be the result.

I see, but why are they a problem if you ignore them? Check the first 5
characters, if no valid move abort all autoplaying and say "ivalid move".

btw: why on earth doesn't the autoplay driver check whether a valid move is
transmitted or a "resign" or a "draw" and does not send all the rest ?



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