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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