Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:06:13 07/12/01
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On July 12, 2001 at 15:25:21, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On July 12, 2001 at 13:53:01, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>However, the previous sentence says "if and only if" and therefore it is >>required at all times. If a capture can be made, then there is an opposing side >>pawn. If a capture cannot be made there is none. I also verified the meaning >>with Steven J. Edwards. At any rate, I have asked him to change the meaning for >>the next iteration of the standard. > >If I say "A is true if B is true", A is true if B is true, and A is undefined if >B is false. > >If I say "A is true if and only if B is true", A is true if B is true, and A is >false if B is false. But if A is false, that doesn't mean that B is false, >which is what you contend. > >Of course, if the author of the document says that that's what he meant, then >the meaning is clarified. > >But to specify that you *must* set the EP square to e3 on 1. e4 is dumb, and I >wouldn't do it. > >It's troubling that two important standards are in the hands of someone who >doesn't seem to have much time to maintain them, who is not really interested in >hearing what others have to say about them, and who makes strange and pedantic >decisions. > >I asked him if I could make be involved in discussion of the "new" PGN standard >(about three years ago), and he essentially told me "no". I can't remember his >exact reason, but it was something to the effect that he was going to involve >Bob and other important people. I thought that was very strange. > >Meanwhile we have a PGN standard with a billion NAG's, which can't actually be >used to correctly store an Informant game. > >bruce I always wanted to be important. :) But I have never had _any_ discussions about a new PGN standard. I did write him a long while back about what I consider the "broken" EP field in the FEN setup string... I don't think it should be set if there is no pawn that can make an ep capture. I simply check this at present, produce a warning message if I see an ep target with no possible capture, but I accept the position and squash the ep target stuff to avoid breaking my search, which does this right.
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