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Subject: Re: A new trick position

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:06:05 03/06/02

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On March 06, 2002 at 08:26:49, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>On March 06, 2002 at 08:06:29, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>On March 06, 2002 at 05:37:14, Andreas Stabel wrote:
>>
>>>The discussion of castling possibility or not reminds me of a silly
>>>similar problem somebody once presented me with:
>>>
>>>[D]8/8/8/8/1p2p3/1P1kP3/1P3P2/2K3N1 w Q -
>>>
>>>White to mate in half a move :)
>>>
>>>Best regards
>>>Andreas Stabel
>>
>>This is easy Rd1 mate!
>>
>>Jouni
>
>Ahhhm, your basically right, even most people here would say your wrong, because
>the FEN is wrong. :-))
>So let me give the position again with the corrected FEN:
>[D]8/8/8/8/1p2p3/1P1kP3/1P3P2/2K3N1 w Q/2 -
>
>Please notice the Q/2 flag in the position. It obviously means that castling to
>the queen side is allowed partially - exactly by a half.
>This new feature will be part of the new epd description as soon as S. J.
>Edwards has time to give a new request for comment (RFC).
>Kind regards
>Bernhard


Can you please explain what all this nonsense is about?  half-castling and
such?



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