Re: possible misinterpretation of king-side castle?

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"Ray Kiddy" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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>
> Hello -
>
> I am going to send you this transcript, with my mistakes left in. I  am 
> new to using this, so excuse my mistyping and not-so-good chess play.
>
> The problem is in move 6, where it says I am doing an illegal move. I 
> think it is saying that because I had done a king-side castle in move  5 
> with "d1b1". This would be illegal, of course, as a king move. But  it is 
> a legal king-side castle move and I thought that this is how

Your king is on 'e', not 'd'.  The queen is on 'd'.


> the move would be interpreted. But then when I try to take the knight 
> with "c1c2", it says this is illegal. Does it not think the rook is  at 
> c1?
>
> If I am correct in my guess, then "d1b1" was accepted as a legal  move, 
> but the rook was not moved with a "a1c1". There is no "castle"  or 
> "kcastle" command, no other way to castle, no?

O-O and O-O-O are the standard, accepted way to indicate castling.


Also, there are ways to display the board, so you can always see where the 
pieces are at.  It looks like you ran gnuchess with the xboard command which 
actually turns off some stuff.  (XBoard is a stand-alone generic gui that 
many chess programs use.)


I'd suggest finding another chess program, actually.

One that has a nice gui already built in and is designed for beginners.

GNU Chess can be used with a gui called xboard (a seperate program), either 
way it's not the most friendly of chess programs.



>
> So, where is the problem? I am running this on Mac OS X 10.4.11.
>
> thanx - ray
>
> % /usr/local/bin/gnuchess xboard
> Chess
> Adjusting HashSize to 1024 slots
> d2d4
> 1. d2d4
> 1. ... d7d5
> My move is: d7d5
> b1b3
> Illegal move: b1b3
> b1c3
> 2. b1c3
> 2. ... g8f6
> My move is: g8f6
> g1f3
> 3. g1f3
> 3. ... b8c6
> My move is: b8c6
> c1f4
> 4. c1f4
> 4. ... c8f5
> My move is: c8f5
> d1b1
> 5. d1b1
> 5. ... c6b4
> My move is: c6b4
> a2a3
> 6. a2a3
> 6. ... b4c2
> My move is: b4c2
> c1c2
> Illegal move: c1c2
> q
> Illegal move: q
> quit
> %
> % /usr/local/bin/gnuchess -v
> GNU Chess 5.07
> %
>
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