Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:27:20 02/05/02
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On February 05, 2002 at 10:10:46, Andreas Stabel wrote: >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 Chessbase has similiar behaviour rnbqkbnr/pppp1ppp/8/4p3/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 3 >> > >And it also has strange ideas about en passant, I pasted the following >FEN into winboard: >rnbqkbnr/pp1ppppp/8/2p5/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq c6 0 2 > >When I saved the position I got: >rnbqkbnr/pp1ppppp/8/2p5/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1 I think that winboard is correct in this case when chessbase interface that gets what you expect is wrong. en passant capture is not possible in the relevant position so I do not see a reason for the FEN to include irrelevant information. The more interesting question is what winboard does in the following position when the last move is not irrelevant. rnbqkb1r/pp1ppppp/5n2/2pP4/8/8/PPP1PPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq c6 0 2 Uri
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