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Subject: Re: Do you want to catch chess programs that cooks test suites ?

Author: James Robertson

Date: 07:57:04 02/09/00

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On February 09, 2000 at 10:52:20, Andreas Stabel wrote:

>I've made a program that takes a file with FEN positions and inverts the
>colours, castlings, en passant, side to move and so on to generate an
>equivalent position. The program is also able to exchange right and left
>sides of the board, but then castling info is lost. I is even possible to
>rotate the board 90 degrees, but only if there are no pawns !
>
>The program is free for anybody, with source. Just e-mail me at anst@dolphin.no
>
>The interface is simple and the program may easily be compiled on any machine
>with a C compiler. If you want, you can get a Windows or SCO-Unix (Intel)
>executable.
>
>The program has the following interface:
>Usage: rfen <input file> [-<options>]
>Legal options are:
>   c: Generate crafty setboard output
>   e: Output warnings and info about errors in format
>   f: Generate FEN output (Default)
>   i: Invert board and black & white pieces
>   m: Mirror right and left side (Castling is lost)
>   r: Rotate board clockwise (Only if no pawns)
>   s: Turn off strict checking of FEN
>   v: Verbose
>
>To invert all FEN positions in a file type:
>rfen -ei file.fen > newfile.fen
>
>I hope somebody finds this useful
>Best regards
>Andreas Stabel

This program sounds really great!

James :)



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