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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