Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 07:15:09 02/05/02
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On February 05, 2002 at 10:02:27, Andreas Stabel wrote: >On February 05, 2002 at 09:56:27, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>On February 04, 2002 at 18:07:55, J. C. Boco wrote: >> >>>nt >> >>A good way to get the fen right, is to setup the position in e.g. winboard and >>choose "File -> Copy Position To Clipboard", then paste it here with Ctrl-v. >>Remember to put the [D] in front. >> >>-S. > >I'm sorry but that won't work, winboard has strange ideas about castling. >F.ex. if you do the moves 1. e4 e5 2. Ke2 Ke7 3. Ke1 Ke8 >from the opening position and save the FEN you get: >rnbqkbnr/pppp1ppp/8/4p3/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 4 > >Regards >Andreas Stabel That does look like a bug, but in fact winboard needs a dialogbox for setting the castle rights in _any_ position AFAIK. But it's not a huge problem, it is easy to edit the string by hand, just paste it to an editor and copy it back in :) But chessbase light has a nice UI for setting up positions (correctly!) :) -S.
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