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Subject: Re: contradicting FEN and SMK-FEN

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 23:12:31 08/03/05

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On August 04, 2005 at 02:09:20, Juan Pablo Naar C. wrote:

>On August 04, 2005 at 01:57:51, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:
>
>>Here are some facts to objectify the discussion instead of flaming:
>>
>>See following Chess960 position SP-518, you will know it:
>>
>>[D]rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
>>
>>SMK-FEN: rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w AHah - 0 1
>>X-FEN:   rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
>>FEN:     rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
>>
>>Or look at following playable pseudo-FRC position SP-532 (one of 18 possible):
>>
>>[D]rbbnkqnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBBNKQNR w KQkq - 0 1
>>
>>SMK-FEN: rbbnkqnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBBNKQNR w AHah - 0 1
>>X-FEN:   rbbnkqnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBBNKQNR w KQkq - 0 1
>>FEN:     rbbnkqnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBBNKQNR w KQkq - 0 1
>>
>>In both cases the castling tags are making the difference
>>
>>Because of FEN and SMK-FEN being different, a decision for SMK-FEN will leave
>>behind any compatibility to traditional FEN without any need.
>>
>>Reinhard.
>
>Hi Reinhard,
>
>What does AHah means? The castling?
>
>The question is, why did Stefan make his own FEN? Also, does that
>incompatibility affect the other FRC engines that can work on Arena to play in
>Shredder GUI?
>
>I've heard that Arena has FRC problems, now Shredder with incompatibility, when
>will a full compatible FRC GUI will appear?

Hopefully never! Chess wasn,t meant to be scambled. It goes against the nature
of chess, imho.



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