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

[h . g . muller]

> 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?

Indeed there is. The move syntax becomes too ambiguous for the parser to
handle if lower case could be a piece as well as a file indicator.

I furthermore think it is in general bad strategy to cater to
non-compliant engines.