Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 06:15:27 07/15/05
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On July 15, 2005 at 08:45:41, Richard Pijl wrote: >So please, can you stop complaining about not using your suggestions? And be >grateful for the nice Chess960 GUI and well-defined extensions of UCI that >Stefan made available? > >Btw, did you notice that some of your work was used? Ever noticed the starting >position numbering for instance? Richard, it is very irrelevant whether a proposal would be from me or anybody else. And I have made suggestions for compromises more that seriously could be done at all. I have also been willing to accept a different FEN encoding. But avoiding to create a compromise now creates an unnecessary quarral about to be avoided incompatibilities. But compatibility is most important. It does not make any sens to encode one and the same position differently, only because Shredder has its own view on it. Why has there been a need to frustrate those who already have written PGN viewers for Chess960, what about the matching online chess servers, slowly growing databases storing Chess960 PGN games? And files with all 960 starting positions encoded as FEN now have been made incompatible, too, without any need. I am not able to understand that. Very, very early I have supported SMK with a lot of information on that. Why has it not been possible to move towards an agreement avoiding such trouble? I have been quiet beside that internal discussion until facts have been established by Shredder. I am not responsible for the actual public discussed controverse situation. Reinhard.
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