Popeye team has announced Popeye 4.73, available on https://github.com/thomas-maeder/popeye/releases/tag/v4.73
Also, in August,2015 Popeye is moved from sourceforge.net to github! For now three releases of Popeye (4.69-4.73) are available at Releases menu.
One more comment by Thomas Maeder on MatPlus: “Please use the issues section (symbol “!” on the right) for your new bug reports and issue requests – most of the old ones have been migrated to the new site, as well as release 4.69 – more releases may follow.”
Thanks a lot to Popeye team for their work!
I wonder what has happened with notation for half-neutrals in solutions in PY v.4.71-4.73.
Like, the solution to No.871 by PY4.69 looks like:
a) 1.Bc7*b6 hNg2-c4=nh 2.nhNc4-e8=wh Rh2-h5 3.hNe8-g7=nh + nhNg7-e8=bh #
but in 4.73 “hn” seems to be used for half-neutral, but for the “departure” only (1…hnNg2-c4), and change of color is the same as before, just “h” (=nh; =wh; =bh):
a) 1.Bc7*b6 hnNg2-c4=nh 2.nhnNc4-e8=wh Rh2-h5 3.hnNe8-g7=nh + nhnNg7-e8=bh #
I believe the first version looked better. Notation like “nhnNc4” looks too heavy 🙂
Either it’s a bug, or an intention to change the notation?
Probably changed to differentiate between hurdlecolourchanging pieces (now shown as ‘hcc’) and halfneutral pieces (hn).
I’ve updated http://sanguis.xs4all.nl/popeye with the new development version 4.74.