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Jose Carrillo wrote on Thu, Nov 5, 2009 12:49 PM UTC:

>> BANNED INPUT: d8-c8;a8-d8 on turn 18:

>> MOVE: a8-d8 and other moves from one space to another are banned here.


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>>Note that the last one gets past its initial illegal message but then has a 
>>problem with a castling move written in two parts. That might have to be 
>>fixed manually.

Fergus,

The reason that castling was a double move was that the King move by itself 
(k d8-c8) was a legal move, even without castling.

You should allow multiple moves for situations like this one.

Unless, the preset would have understood the rook move (r a8-d8) to be castling. Would this rook move had not given an error about not been able to capture one's own pieces?