Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 06:37:20 02/01/03
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On February 01, 2003 at 08:08:05, David Rasmussen wrote: >Sure, it can be used for some things. But for just setting up a position with no >context, the halfmove clock is meaningless, IMO. Obviously it IS useful, at the cost of a maximum of 3 extra bytes. To add in what you want (which is PGN), it costs more bytes than a one line string. FEN is just a convienient way to accurately specify the vast majority of positions. If it fails to accurately describe a position, then you can always post PGN, and when someone else posts a position that you feel isn't accurately described by the FEN string, you could ask them to post the PGN. I'm really not sure what you're going for here. The standard isn't going to change for 0.001% of the positions that this might be applicable to.
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