Author: Danniel Corbit
Date: 14:49:13 09/30/98
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On September 30, 1998 at 15:57:25, Tim Mirabile wrote: >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? You don't, but FEN does not hold that either. In truth, FEN does have some uses [e.g. for annotating by a human it has more descriptive power than EPD]. But for analyzing with a computer it is sadly lacking.
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