[eboard-devel] PGN support

[John A. <jar...@in...>]

First of all, eboard is a marvel. Now that I've got it to build, with
Felipe's help, under a particularly fussy version of gcc, I'm a complete
convert from xboard. It looks beautiful and makes FICS a
joy to use.

I just wanted to enquire about the status of PGN support. I've noticed
that annotated games in particular seem to confuse eboard, and trying to
load certain PGN files results in a segfault (but no core... why?) 

I am guessing that eboard currently strips the comments from PGN files;
it would be a lovely feature to have these displayed along with the
moves. Also, when playing over PGN games, especially my own (defeats)
from FICS, it would be nice to be able to:

1) Stop at a certain position and make a different move from the text,
then continue manually moving pieces to explore different lines, then
return to the text.

2) Fire up a chess engine with the current position and ask it for move
suggestions, or play the engine from the current position as either White
or Black.

I haven't finished exploring eboard yet, so apologies if I am requesting
features that already exist!


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