Answers.Body: <p>Once you provide the email file to Cmail/XBoard, you need to switch to 'Edit Game' mode, in the Mode menu in order to record a move. Also, I had to switch out of 'Edit Game' mode in order to mail the move.</p>
  
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Answers.CreationDate: 2016-08-12T02:42:03.597Z
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Body: <p>I've recently started playing e-mail correspondence chess and I'm looking at Cmail/XBoard as a tool to play these games. Looking at the docs, I managed to get the right PGN tags for the game to be parsed and XBoard to launch and display the latest position.</p>
  
  <p>XBoard will not allow any moves though. I can step through the game but not enter a new move.</p>
  
  <p>Any idea on what could be wrong with the XBoard settings or the PGN input?</p>
  
  <pre><code>[Event "Email correspondence game"]
  [Site "NET"]
  [Date "2016.08.04"]
  [Round "-"]
  [White "Vergara, Rene"]
  [Black "?"]
  [Result "*"]
  [WhiteNA "?"]
  [BlackNA "email@host.com"]
  [Mode "EM"]
  [CmailGameName "rav-vs-Rene"]
  
  1. e4
  *
  </code></pre>
  
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2016-08-04T04:29:51.683Z
Comments.Text: Can you provide a broken PGN to test?
Comments.UserDisplayName: ZirconiumX
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2016-08-04T22:07:47.727Z
Comments.Text: This is the content generated by Cmail itself when I started a game and sent it to myself. If I pipe this back into Cmail, it reads the PGN and shows the move but it doesn't allow me to make the next move.
Comments.UserDisplayName: ravl1084
Tags: <correspondence-chess>
Title: Cmail/XBoard won't allow move
ThreadText: # Cmail/XBoard won't allow move
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-08-03)
  
  I've recently started playing e-mail correspondence chess and I'm looking at Cmail/XBoard as a tool to play these games. Looking at the docs, I managed to get the right PGN tags for the game to be parsed and XBoard to launch and display the latest position.
  XBoard will not allow any moves though. I can step through the game but not enter a new move.
  Any idea on what could be wrong with the XBoard settings or the PGN input?
  [Event "Email correspondence game"]
  [Site "NET"]
  [Date "2016.08.04"]
  [Round "-"]
  [White "Vergara, Rene"]
  [Black "?"]
  [Result "*"]
  [WhiteNA "?"]
  [BlackNA "email@host.com"]
  [Mode "EM"]
  [CmailGameName "rav-vs-Rene"]
  
  1. e4
  *
  
  **Tags:** correspondence-chess
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Can you provide a broken PGN to test?  
  > **username_0**: This is the content generated by Cmail itself when I started a game and sent it to myself. If I pipe this back into Cmail, it reads the PGN and shows the move but it doesn't allow me to make the next move.  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2016-08-12. Score: 1
  
  Once you provide the email file to Cmail/XBoard, you need to switch to 'Edit Game' mode, in the Mode menu in order to record a move. Also, I had to switch out of 'Edit Game' mode in order to mail the move.
  
  
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