Re: [Scid-users] Input Engine

2007-12-09 Thread Alexander Wagner
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:54:00PM +0100, pgeorges wrote: Hello! > > Now, the point is how do I see inside scid that the > > engine made a move? Is there currently a way to see > > this? > > > You have example code in sergame.tcl for example, uci.tcl > is also a good place. The answer is s

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 support?

2007-12-09 Thread Alexander Wagner
Todd A. Jacobs schrieb: Good Morning! >> scid and those loaded and replayed fine ... unless there >> was castling, > > Castling in chess960 needs special support. If you're > reading from PGN, what should scid do for O-O or O-O-O if > the king and rook aren't on the normal squares? A > par

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 support?

2007-12-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 11:52:08AM +0100, Marcin Kasperski wrote: > AFAIK current tendency is to use just 'FEN' (not X-FEN) for chess960 FEN can't express all of the castling scenarios in chess960, but can certainly handle a variety of starting positions. X-FEN is probably more important in terms