Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 23:58:23 07/14/05
Is my name already Laokoon? Probably the gods would discipline me very soon, continuing talking about a "trojan horse" in the incarnation of the new UCI protocol extension for Chess960. But this "gods' present is standing just in front of the doors of the Chess960 scene. But when accepted and integrated it will kiss to dead everything by its incompatibility. It will durably separate Chess960 from traditional chess without any need, instead to keep it what it is, a compatible superset to the classic chess game. There is neither a need to switch an engine into a Chess960 mode (because all information needed is in fact included within the FEN string) nor to suddenly define a new and incompatible FEN for Chess960 positions. It is not understandable for me, why that new approach of Shredder ignores all that much work already done by a lot of people. We already have a highly compatible FEN extension in the form of X-FEN, see http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/fullchess5b_e.html, and a lot of Chess960 games already played even at online servers and stored in numerous databases. All work prior done by people around ARENA has been completly ignored by Shredder's actual UCI protocoll extension, though having all information at hands in time. Reinhard (alias Laokoon), facing his bad fate.
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