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Subject: Re: Why to use compatible X-FEN (in Chess960)

Author: Andreas Schwartmann

Date: 14:43:42 07/18/05

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On July 18, 2005 at 16:20:15, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:


>It is me who structured and enumerated all 960 Chess960 starting positions,
>created an easy two-table scheme fitting at one page
>http://www.chesstigers.de/download/chess960_regeln.pdf, I have written the only
>existing book on Chess960 in german language
>http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/fullchess1_e.html, have written a chessprogram
>consisting of GUI and engine SMIRF http://de.geocities.com/rsmuenchen/ (beta
>version downloadable in three languages, 8x8 and 10x8 chess variants, key to be
>requested by email) using and producing FEN and PGN 100% compatibly ...


Maybe, but who cares?



>If I say, that Shredder FEN is not compatible because it is encoding identical
>positions into different FEN strings depending on the view of Shredder, you
>could rely on that. PGN demands for a unic encoding of games, thus same is valid
>for FEN strings.


Who cares?


>My suggested proposals to avoid such incompatibilities have been completely
>ignored, which is hardly to be understood.


Live is cruel.


:-)


Andreas



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