2009/1/14 Roy Brunjes <roy_brun...@yahoo.com>
> I have discovered that promotions are not handled properly when the
> promotion piece is in upper case (i.e. d2d1Q). It appears that the UCI
> protocol does not force lower or upper case for the promotion piece so some
> engines use lower and some use upper case.
>
UCI protocol seems to require a lower case letter.
>
> Can SCID be enhanced to support promotion pieces specified in upper case
> also? Naum4 is one engine that uses upper case and Hiarcs apparently is
> another.
>
Are you sure for Hiarcs ? This surprises me a little bit.
It is easy to parse engines' output and change the letter, but the problem
arises when a list of moves is sent to the engine by the user interface : if
some engines require e7e8q and others e7e8Q, it will be a mess.
Pascal
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