Well, I fixed the previous problem we had as Fergus suggested, by retrieving the shuffle made when the game was created from the constant 'startshuffle', like:
if isconst startshuffle: // shuffle has already been determined
setsystem space @startshuffle;// retrieve it
else: // new game; must shuffle
... // perform shuffling on $space
setconst startshuffle $space; // save the shuffle for persistent use
endif;
That is, Fergus told me to write an @ before it, otherwise a wrong, uninitialized variable was retrieved, which led to a board of all white pawns. This seemed to work at the time. If you get a new shuffle now, it can only be because the test "isconst startshuffle" returns false, and it starts making a new shuffle rather than retreiving the old one (which apparently for some reason ceased to exist). If you shuffle again you are unlikely to get the same position. Perhaps Fergus knows how a constant can disappear.
Well, I fixed the previous problem we had as Fergus suggested, by retrieving the shuffle made when the game was created from the constant 'startshuffle', like:
if isconst startshuffle: // shuffle has already been determined setsystem space @startshuffle;// retrieve it else: // new game; must shuffle ... // perform shuffling on $space setconst startshuffle $space; // save the shuffle for persistent use endif;That is, Fergus told me to write an @ before it, otherwise a wrong, uninitialized variable was retrieved, which led to a board of all white pawns. This seemed to work at the time. If you get a new shuffle now, it can only be because the test "isconst startshuffle" returns false, and it starts making a new shuffle rather than retreiving the old one (which apparently for some reason ceased to exist). If you shuffle again you are unlikely to get the same position. Perhaps Fergus knows how a constant can disappear.