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The Fairychess Include File Tutorial. How to use the fairychess include file to program games for Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2023 08:42 AM UTC:

@Fergus: Very nice that you can simplify your stalemate routine in the fairychess include file, but please don't do it in such a way that it breaks presets of others through changing the underlying behaviour of GAME code or Game Courier. If you do not maintain backward compatibility at all times, you are bound to break stuff.

So if you want an array that contains the legal moves as text rather than coordinates, and also contains special moves, just give it a new name, and use it by that name in the user code you want to simplify, so that existing presets that use the method you want to deprecate continue to function.