Re: board is wrong? or just unlikely...

[Simon Waters]

Ray Kiddy wrote:
> 
> I am looking to set up specific board positions to test an app. For
> example, I wanted a trivial test of queen promotion and so tried the
> board "7k/P7/8/8/8/8/8/K7". This gives a "Board is wrong!" error and I
> am not sure why it would be wrong.

Lacks which side to move? Try....

7k/P7/8/8/8/8/8/K7 w - - 0 1

I'd suggest using SCID as it has an excellent board editor, and I assume
it runs on MacOS, and can run with GNU Chess or other winboard engine
and show analysis etc.

> Are the scripts or board setups that people have laying around? Is there
> a location where the testing is documented that I have not found yet?
> Any suggestions would be welcome.

The CVS version of GNU Chess includes EPD files for testing of chess
engines, which might be of use. There are plenty of other EPD test files
around.

We don't distribute these in the official release because their
copyright position is uncertain, although we believe they are freely
available for the use we put them to.