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Subject: Re: A FEN definition oversight?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:10:34 01/31/03

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On January 31, 2003 at 18:27:10, David Rasmussen wrote:

>It doesn't really make sense in FEN to be able to define the halfmove clock (or
>whatever they call it), without being able to define the positions that went
>before.

In order to do that you *must* have the PGN for all the moves that occurred
prior. {Or a list of all the previous FEN/EPD strings}

FEN is not designed to show the entire game state.  It's only a snapshot.  You
will need more data to know what has occured before hand.

[snip]



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