On 6/13/2026 10:40 AM, Philippe Michel wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 12:54:56AM -0600, MK wrote:
>> It looks like I can't copy/paste from an actual game nor create by editing
>> a position where I offer to double or to resign, to check if my decision
>> was correct or how bad of an error was it.
>> Is there a trick to this that I don't know? Is this a bug or a feature? Why?
> When you paste a GNUbg or XG Id in a running instance of the program,
> you paste a *position* : the placement of the chequers, the position and
> value of the cube, score, match length, rules, dice in the case of a
> chequer play position, and that's it.
This is what would be expected but it doesn't work in positions where a
cube action (double, beaver, etc.) or a resignation is offered.
GnuBG ID stores "double offered" in bit 13 and "resignation offered" in
bits 14-15. So what causes this problem...?
Did you look at this:?
gnubg - Bugs: bug #66552, GNUbg ID does not work with... [Savannah]
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66552>
And this for images of copied then pasted GnuBG position examples:?
Editing or pasting positions with cube or resign actions
<https://www.bgonline.org/forums/webbbs_config.pl?read=220278>
> It stops at "X on roll" or "X rolled d1 d2", there is no information on
> the best play or the actual play in the game from which you copied the Id.
>
> For the latter you could copy the analysis of the play (after using Hint
> with GNUbg for instance), but this is text or HTML that you can paste on
> an editor, not in GNUbg itself.
>
> What you seem to want amounts to copying and pasting a fragment of a
> game, a position and the following play, possibly analyzed, and this
> feature doesn't exist.
Either I misexpressed or you misunderstood what I was trying to do,
which was just to be able to paste back a position to look exactly as
it did when it was copied.
Then, of course, I would use analysis functions as you also indicated
but I can't begin to do any analysis because I can't reproduce the
positions that I had previously saved.
MK
