Constructing a Board about chess-challenge HOT 8 CLOSED

Hi, I've added: public static Board CreateBoardFromFEN(string fen) to the board class in V1.1
Please note that this is quite slow, so I'd generally recommend using the MakeMove and UndoMove functions on the board provided in the think function instead.

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I just peered into the source code - might've been best to do that first! Looks like it is possible to construct a board from a FEN string, but not documented, so this is better described as a documentation issue than enhancement

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Whoops - it is not possible to construct a board from a FEN string using the allowed namespaces. Is there a reason for this?

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I'm also curious about this. It's a quite annoying that there appears to be no (allowed) board cloning support

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It seems like

new Board(board.board)

works.

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the thing i'm currently using is

public Board CopyBoard(Board board)
{
    ChessChallenge.Chess.Board b = new ChessChallenge.Chess.Board();
    b.LoadPosition(board.GetFenString());
    return new Board(b);
}

But this technically isn't allowed. I think/hope Sebastian wouldn't care that much if thats the only thing you're using that for, because this one is basically required for any minimax algorithm.

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I would love to clone a board without having to write my own deep cloning method... definitely let us know if this is allowed!

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@sten-code you can work around that by always using pairs of MakeMove und UndoMove. MinMax often is implemented via recursion and works well in that case, but for many other cases it becomes a hassle really quickly

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