Author: F. Huber
Date: 09:49:45 07/20/05
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On July 19, 2005 at 15:36:40, F. Huber wrote: >Hello, > >today I´ve written a small command-line utility ´X2FEN960´, which converts >all FEN-strings in EPD-files or PGN-files (within the tags [FEN "....."]) >from the X-FEN format to the new FEN960-format (as I call it) used by the >new Shredder-GUIs (ShredderClassic 1.3, Shredder 9.1). >Of course it should only be applied to EPD/PGN-files containing FRC/Chess960 >positions or games (in X-FEN format)! > >If anybody is interested in this tool, it can be downloaded at: >http://cap.connx.com/cap/chess-utils/xfen/X2FEN960.zip There´s now an update (ver.1.1) for this X-FEN-converter available - same link: http://cap.connx.com/cap/chess-utils/xfen/X2FEN960.zip I´ve included a short ´Readme´ and an EPD-file for testing, and the program now has an option ´/c´ (´compatibility mode´), which uses the standard letters "KQkq" for the castling notation in classical chess positions (i.e. where the rooks are on a/h-files and the king on the e-file), so that such positions could also be used by chess-GUIs or engines, which do not support FRC/Chess960. Regards, Franz.
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