Copying boards/overriding fen strings

[Isaiah Nasby]

For how I want my AI to work, it requires me to save different board layouts. What I'm wondering is how I create a new board with the same values as a different, or in other words, how do I copy one board to another. I considered just setting the new board's fen string equal to the old board's fen string, but there doesn't seem to be a way to manually set the fen string. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: I found that the function for creating a new board does take in a source board, but it doesn't work if I put in the board that I want it to copy. The error reads "Argument 1: cannot convert from ChessChallenge.API.Board to ChessChallenge.Chess.Board.

[Ryan Heath]

There is this function CreateBoardFromFEN, but the comment says it all, you should try to use an algorithm that uses the board states through MakeMove and UndoMove calls repeatedly.

/// <summary>
/// Creates a board from the given fen string. Please note that this is quite slow, and so it is advised
/// to use the board given in the Think function, and update it using MakeMove and UndoMove instead.
/// </summary>
public static Board CreateBoardFromFEN(string fen)
{
    Chess.Board boardCore = new Chess.Board();
    boardCore.LoadPosition(fen);
    return new Board(boardCore);
}

[Isaiah Nasby]

Ok, thank you. I'll try that, but if it does turn out to be too slow then I'll try to adjust my code to use Make/UndoMove.