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Subject: Re: ICC tourney BlitzIn 2 question

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 07:57:41 01/30/00

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Hi

On January 30, 2000 at 10:13:45, Paul wrote:

>hi,
>
>I was watching rounds 1 & 2 of this great ICC tournament yesterday
>(as a guest, I'm new to ICC). That was great fun!!
>
>I'm using BlitzIn 2, and I type eg 'ob insomniac' to view the game
>Insomniac is playing at that particular moment.
>
>What I would like to know is this: is there a way to copy the current
>board position of a game I'm 'observing' into an epd string?
>Because then I could analyse the position with my own little program.
>That would be even more fun !!
>
>The only thing I've come up with is the 'pgn' command, but this is
>not what I'm looking for (no epd, you just get all the moves).
>Anyone?
>
>Cheers,
>Paul

Use the command "fen <gamenumber>" to get the FEN string of the
position. I think FEN is a subset of EPD. At least Hiarcs "EPD Import"
accepts FEN syntax.

Maybe BlitzIn has something on the client side, but since I don't have
Windows I dunno about BlitzIn-specific stuff.

Kind regards,
 -sargon



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