[Bug-gnubg] fibs board deadlock

[Joern Thyssen]

Hi all,

I've reached a deadlock trying to get the GUI and the external player
option working together. Both parts work using the FIBS board style.

I have two problems:

(a) the FIBS board does not contain enough information to
    detect beavers/raccoons
(b) the FIBS board does not contain any information about resignations

I guess Gary tried to fix problem (a) by extending the "doubled" field
so the sign of the field is indicating who doubled.

Later on Rod Roark tried to fix problem (b) by extending the "doubled"
field so negative values represent resignations.

Of course, the two solutions are incompatible.

So far I've decided to put back Gary's original code, so we can handle
beavers/raccoons correctly in the gui (see Ric Gerace's mail from
yesterday). However, this breaks resignations.

Does anyone have an idea on how to handle resignations in the external
player?

Jørn

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