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Subject: Re: Another Clever Problem; Samuel Loyd New York Albion 1857, Att. Dr. Hyatt

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 12:18:34 03/07/02

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On March 07, 2002 at 14:18:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>>Then explain how please to give the correct FEN for this position, thanks.
>
>The first field is the FEN string describing the 64 squares.  The next field
>is w or b for white-to-move or black-to-move.  The next field is composed of
>1-4 characters...  K means white can castle kingside, Q means white can castle
>queenside, k means black can castle kingside and q means black can castle
>queenside.  "-" means neither side can castle.  The remaining to fields have
>to do with the move number and number of moves since the last irreversable
>move for 50 move draws...
>

Right!
And don't forget the e.p. dash/square also.

This is the FEN for the initial position:
rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1

-S.



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