Re: [Scid-users] Input Engine

2007-12-10 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : > >> I think there should be procedures to handle that, and not > >> me sending commands to some pipe. Imagine what would be > >> required to touch if you decide that the serious game engine > >> is not running on stream 3 anymore. > > > > This would simply break things.

Re: [Scid-users] Input Engine

2007-12-10 Thread Alexander Wagner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi! > Engine communication is not unified because the engines > have different capabilities (for example the option and > MultiPV that only exist in UCI protocol, the fact that UCI > does not understand or convert SAN moves, etc.). Sure. That is why xboard != uci.

Re: [Scid-users] Input Engine

2007-12-10 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 f

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 support?

2007-12-10 Thread Alexander Wagner
Marcin Kasperski schrieb: Hi! >> Point is: currently scid really refuses every "illegal" >> move, simply cause scids input methods are bullet proof >> in the sense that they do not allow for illegal moves. >> "It can not be there what can not be there" ;) > > This is both good and bad. Act

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 support?

2007-12-10 Thread Marcin Kasperski
> Point is: currently scid really refuses every "illegal" > move, simply cause scids input methods are bullet proof in > the sense that they do not allow for illegal moves. "It can > not be there what can not be there" ;) This is both good and bad. It is good, as it makes scid perfect tool to v

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 support?

2007-12-10 Thread Marcin Kasperski
> > 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 of exporting > positions later in the opening or midd