winboard_x and FRC

[Richard Pijl]

Yesterday I've been tinkering with winboard_x, to let it play FRC on ICC with winboard engines. There already was some functionality in there to enter FRC castling with King-takes-Rook moves, but I did not want to change the Baron to work with that. So now it will work with O-O and O-O-O like specified in the winboard protocol. KxR may still work, but I haven't tested that.
I've sent the adapted files to Alessandro to include it in winboard_x, but I'll send them to anyone who's interested.

Richard.

[milix]

There are some problems with winboard-x and FRC. For example, winboard-x does not send the position's fen to the engine when File->New Chess960. Another problem is when the engine tries to castle, for example in the following position
bbrnqkrn/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BBRNQKRN w GCgc - 0 1
[diag]bbrnqkrn/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BBRNQKRN w GCgc - 0 1[/diag]
This is what results after the engine plays 1. O-O
bbrnqkrn/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BBRN1KQN b Cgc - 0 1
[diag]bbrnqkrn/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BBRN1KQN b Cgc - 0 1[/diag]