Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 08:40:06 02/05/02
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On February 05, 2002 at 11:27:20, Uri Blass wrote: >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 The same: rnbqkb1r/pp1ppppp/5n2/2pP4/8/8/PPP1PPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1 But strangely enough, the en-passent move is a legal move on the board!? Does Tim Mann know of this, it must be a bug? -S. >Uri
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