🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Mar 22, 2022 05:01 PM UTC:
Attention Game Courier Developers
While working on a preset for Miller's Spherical Chess, I was using the problem composer to set up positions for testing whether the pieces had the correct moves. While doing this, I happened to have the white King on h1 while testing its powers of movement, and it had nine moves highlighted as legal. I eventually figured out that it was counting the castling moves as legal even though I had no Rooks on the board.
To fix this, I replaced this code:
setflag a1 a8 h1 h8 e1 e8;
with this code, which conditionally checks whether the right piece is on each space before setting the flag.
if == K space e1:
setflag e1;
endif;
if == R space a1:
setflag a1;
endif;
if == R space h1:
setflag h1;
endif;
if == k space e8:
setflag e8;
endif;
if == r space a8:
setflag a8;
endif;
if == r space h8:
setflag h8;
endif;
The reason the King was getting an extra legal move on h1 is because h1 was flagged for the Rook. When I tried the King on g1, it had only 8 legal moves. By setting each flag conditionally, a problem will not allow castling unless a King and Rook are in the right positions for castling. I have made this change to the Chess preset, and with appropriate modifications, it should be made for any preset that allows castling and uses flags to control when castling is allowed.
Attention Game Courier Developers
While working on a preset for Miller's Spherical Chess, I was using the problem composer to set up positions for testing whether the pieces had the correct moves. While doing this, I happened to have the white King on h1 while testing its powers of movement, and it had nine moves highlighted as legal. I eventually figured out that it was counting the castling moves as legal even though I had no Rooks on the board.
To fix this, I replaced this code:
with this code, which conditionally checks whether the right piece is on each space before setting the flag.
The reason the King was getting an extra legal move on h1 is because h1 was flagged for the Rook. When I tried the King on g1, it had only 8 legal moves. By setting each flag conditionally, a problem will not allow castling unless a King and Rook are in the right positions for castling. I have made this change to the Chess preset, and with appropriate modifications, it should be made for any preset that allows castling and uses flags to control when castling is allowed.