Re: [Scid-users] Re: illegal move

[Ulf-D. E. <ud...@we...>]

abo [Sonntag, 13. Februar 2005 19:23]:
> [...]
> Dividing the game in two parts seems ok for me.
> At first, I entered "fictive moves" to reach the position just after
> the illegal move. (e.g. Rd1, Kd2, and Kc1 for white to simulate
> illegal castling; and 2 moves up and back for black : Bb7-c6 and
> Bb6-c7). I added comments and could continue the game. But this was a
> bad idea because the total umber of moves was altered... with all the
> inconvenients it causes.

If the illegal move is just an illegal castling, it may be possible to 
convert a PGN file containing that move to a Scid database with 
"pgnscid".

See this comment in src/pgnparse.cpp (scid-3.5):

    // The most common type of "illegal" move in standard
    // chess is castling when the king or rook have already
    // moved. So if a castling move failed, turn off
    // strict checking of castling rights and try again,
    // but still print a warning if that succeeded:

Ulf