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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