In general I think it's best to require pieces to be in upper case and
file letters in lower case. Otherwise there is an ambiguity between b
for b-file and B for bishop in certain cases. Not in piece drops, of
course, but I believe there is some ambiguous case (which I can't
remember offhand). It can't be so hard for engine authors to print
"p...@b4" instead of "p...@b4".
--Tim
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:40:06 -0700, Arun Persaud <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> >>> 6419937 <first : move p...@b4
> >
> > p...@b4 is not valid move syntax in WinBoard protocol. The piece indicator
> > has to be a capital. This is true for any SAN move as well.
>
> thanks for the quick answer... I CC the person in this email that send
> me the bug-report.
>
> Is there a reason for only allowing capitals? Or can we expand it to
> also allow lower cases for dropping a piece? Or shouldn't we do these
> kind of things?
>
> ARUN
>
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