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Subject: Re: Most obscure bug *ever*

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:52:23 10/23/02

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On October 23, 2002 at 19:59:11, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On October 23, 2002 at 15:25:04, Colin Frayn wrote:
>
>>Then I suddenly realised.  Carlos had been sending strings to the engine of the
>>form;
>>3r4/5b2/1k1r1p2/Np5p/4P1p1/2R1KPP1/2P4P/R7 w
>>
>>(i.e. missing off the last two dashes.)  The full string should be
>>3r4/5b2/1k1r1p2/Np5p/4P1p1/2R1KPP1/2P4P/R7 w - -
>>
>>but of course the shortened version should still be valid.
>
>Or should it? I'm not sure if there is a FEN standard or not. Is it really a FEN
>string if it's missing some fields? My program doesn't change anything if there
>aren't 6 FEN fields. However, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to default the fields
>that are possible to assume.

The FEN standard and the EPD standard are both subsets of the PGN standard.



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