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Subject: Re: ICC tourney BlitzIn 2 question

Author: John Stanback

Date: 17:21:27 01/30/00

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On January 30, 2000 at 11:37:28, Paul wrote:

>On January 30, 2000 at 10:57:41, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>>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?
>>
>>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
>
>Hi Daniel,
>
>thanks for the response. I looked at the command overview of ICC and the
>only thing I saw was 'loadfen', and nothing on epd. I'm using (and
>programming) under W98, and FEN is fine with me, will try that tonight!
>Using the W98 clipboard beats copying the pgn from the screen to a file
>and reloading the file in my chess program.
>
>BlitzIn displays a nice window per game, showing the board/moves/comments.
>You can copy the comments from the game-window, but not the position or
>moves. But I don't use the latest version, so maybe that has changed in
>the meantime.
>
>BTW, how do the computerchess freaks analyse a game of other programs
>with there own program, do they have another special direct kinda way,
>without copying stuff? I saw eg Bruce comment on the Shredder-LG game.
>How does he do that ? Bruce ?
>
>cheers, Paul

I don't know how other people are doing it, but like you, I did it the
"hard" way using Blitzin, giving the "pgn" command and then selecting
all text for that game window and copying to a file and editing out
everything but the pgn and then reading it in from Zarkov...
Next time I'll try the "fen" command.  It would be great to have a
Blitzin menu item to copy the current position to the clipboard
(in EPD format).


John




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