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Subject: Re: Ten years later: CDS-FEN

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 21:33:02 09/09/03

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On September 09, 2003 at 19:18:01, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

>1) targeting on enabling FRC chess beeing encoded by FEN I proposed a
>sligth extension to make all FRC positons encodable,
>
>cited from [http://www.rescon.de/Compu/fullchess5_e.html]:
>
>[...]
>FRC-FEN: possible castlings marked by "KQkq" have to be reinterpreted: a) as for
>a standard the rooks standing at the baseline most outside are targeted, b) "Qq"
>means the a-side, "Kk" the h-side. Some unlikely positions there really do exist
>having more then one rook beside the king at the baseline, in which some special
>castling rights cannot be expressed at all by conventional FEN. That are those
>situations, where one more rook is standig outside beside of a rook having
>castling rights. Here following downwards compatible FEN supplement will be
>helpful by appending a letter for the affected column immediately after the
>matching castling symbol (only if related to a rook not outermost). [ You may
>test the FRC-FEN with the freeware FullChess FEN Editor ! ]

I will have to further examine the needs of the heterodox chess domain.



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