Re: [Bug-XBoard] [Fwd: I think I found a bug in winboard 4.40 beta 1]

[Tim Mann]

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
"address@hidden" instead of "address@hidden".

        --Tim

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:40:06 -0700, Arun Persaud <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> >>> 6419937 <first : move address@hidden
> > 
> > address@hidden 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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