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Subject: Re: 'Just' a position

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 21:34:06 04/18/02

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On April 19, 2002 at 00:21:01, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 18, 2002 at 21:39:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On April 18, 2002 at 20:51:34, Art Basham wrote:
>>
>>>YOu must "back it up" one move, and let black play
>>>...g7-g5...first,
>>>
>>>then white will be able to play PxP e.p.
>>
>>
>>The FEN clearly says that black just played g5, hence the ep target square
>>of g6 is set in the FEN...
>
>Yes but the question is if the program knows to read FEN correctly.
>
>At least my program does not know today to do it and simply ignores the ep
>target when it reads FEN because it is relatively less important(it does not
>ignore the castling rights).
>
>It also ignores the 2 last numbers and assumes that the game simply begins from
>the diagram(assumption that is not correct).
>
>fixing the problems is easy but it was not important enough for me to do it.
>
>Uri

Me too.

Will



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