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Subject: Re: fen string question

Author: Tim Foden

Date: 02:40:16 08/13/00

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On August 12, 2000 at 17:17:28, Carlos del Cacho wrote:
<snip>
>Some fen strings include the number of
>times this position has arised throughout the game and the number of moves since
>the last capture, pawn move or castling move (to apply correctly the 50 move
>rule). Most test suites don't include these two. You can find more info in the
>PGN standard.

The numbers are the half move clock, and the full move number.

The half move clock is the number of half moves since the last capture, pawn
move, castling move.

The full move number is simply the next move number for the game.



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