Scid UCI analysis fix and 'ucinewgame'

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stevenaaus
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Scid UCI analysis fix and 'ucinewgame'

Post by stevenaaus »

One thing Scid does slightly wrong is it's reliance on "position fen"

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    "position fen $analysis(fen)"
to do any UCI engine analysis. Drawing moves arent so easily detected.. are there any other issues ?

I've changed this to

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   "position $analysis(startpos) moves $analysis(movelist)"
in Scid vs. PC subversion.

Anyway, I've posted this to the mailing list too, but perhaps someone can tell me about how optional 'ucinewgame' really is. Does my change break any engines ?