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Game Courier User's Guide. How to play games with the CV Play-by-Mail system.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Matthew Montchalin wrote on Tue, Oct 25, 2005 08:09 PM UTC:
Fergus,
I was using your Game Courier program to play Rococo at
http://play.chessvariants.org (if I spelled that right) and elected
'mutual destruction' for my Swapper (white), and the enemy King (black)
it was standing next to.  So I entered a compound move along the lines of
@-e5; @-d6 causing both the Swapper and King to be deleted from the board
when the diagram got redrawn.

Here's my question-

Did I employ the correct notation?

The User's Guide doesn't state the procedure for declaring victory.  The
Game Courier program just wants to keep going, not realizing that Black no
longer has a King to defend.  Shouldn't there be a subroutine somewhere
checking for the existence of the King in Rococo?  At the least, the
subroutine could fall through to a status report of some kind, with an
option to back up, or log it as a victory?