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Subject: Re: shortest mate test position (+ FEN 50 move question)

Author: Keith Ian Price

Date: 23:39:00 07/21/02

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On July 20, 2002 at 17:53:26, Mike S. wrote:

>On July 20, 2002 at 14:53:34, Terry McCracken wrote:
>
>>>>>>>>>(...)
>
>For example, the F7 GUI supports the en passant square information in the FEN:
>
>Fritz 7 - Scheidl,M
>5K2/8/2qk4/2nPp3/3r4/6B1/B7/3R4 w - e6 0 1
>
>Analysis by Fritz 7:
>
>1.dxe6#
>  +-  (#1)   Tiefe: 2/4   00:00:00
>  +-  (#1)   Tiefe: 2/4   00:00:00
>
>Btw. did you ever wonder what the "0" means before the move number at the end of
>the FEN string? This is the 50 move counter which probably (?) is not supported
>by any chess program, yet. This means, the export/import of a FEN will not be
>100% correct, i.e. if you take a position from the end of a long drawn game...
>
>Is there a program which correctly handles the FEN 50 move counter?
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl

So if the 50th move is checkmate, is it a win or a draw?

kp



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