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Chess variant engines and CECP (XBoard) protocol[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, May 1, 2019 06:52 AM UTC:

Great! My kitchen is finally installed, nearly a week behind schedule due to several setbacks. (It was supposed to be finished while I was on holiday in Cyprus.) But my home is still a shambles, so it might take another week before things are back to normal here.

About the use of 'dressed letter' IDs in SAN (not really a protocol matter!): perhaps it is best to treat the punctuation just as an alternative form of disambiguation in the SAN parser. So that 'B' in the SAN move would match B, B', B", B!, ... A 'tie breaker' rule could solve cases where both a bare B and a punctuated B would match the input move, in favor of the bare B.

This would allow the user (or GUI designer) to generate the kind of SAN he likes best: either always writing puctuation, or never writing it, and rely on the usual coordinate disambiguation to indicate which piece was moved.