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Subject: Re: r.g.c.c. repost DEATH TO FEN. Was:Re: PGN versus EPD - a battle to the

Author: Tim Mirabile

Date: 12:57:25 09/30/98

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On September 30, 1998 at 13:57:50, Danniel Corbit wrote:

>I have changed my mind about EPD.  I used to think it was without value, but
>now I work with it almost exclusively!
>Where is the annotation in FEN for the best possible move?
>Where is the annotation in FEN for the moves to avoid?
>Where is the annotation in FEN for depth of study in plies?
>Where is the annotation in FEN for nodes analyzed?
[...]
>How will you do this with FEN?  Here is my 180 degree turn (I used to like
>FEN):  FEN sucks.  I hate FEN.  Death is too good for FEN.  Down with FEN.
>Destroy FEN.  Get rid of it.  No, really.

This all makes no sense to me.  EPD and FEN have different uses.  FEN is used in
a pgn game database to store a game position and the continuation for which the
initial moves are not known.  How can you store the players names and the rest
of the set of PGN tag pairs, plus the remaining moves of the game, in an EPD
string?



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