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Subject: Re: Is SMIRF compatible ... some Examples

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:59:01 07/27/05

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On July 27, 2005 at 11:53:59, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

>On July 27, 2005 at 11:47:22, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On July 27, 2005 at 11:31:05, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:
>>
>>>On July 27, 2005 at 11:19:07, F. Huber wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 27, 2005 at 10:28:55, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On July 27, 2005 at 09:42:55, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>As far as I understand there is already a tool to translate Shredder's notation
>>>>>>to your notation and the opposite(see
>>>>>>http://www.volker-pittlik.name/wbforum/viewtopic.php?t=3135).
>>>
>>>>>Second, the "Converter" cannot be bidirectional, because the FEN Shredder has
>>>>>chosen simply is incompatible.
>>>
>>>>What a NONSENSE!
>>>>
>>>>It would take me no more than 10 minutes to implement the reverse direction too,
>>>>but I simply don“t want to convert a logical, modern and easily understandable
>>>>FEN-format into the ancient X-FEN!   Point!
>>>
>>>Franz,
>>>
>>>if it would help you: it is not the fault of your tool. But fact is, that on
>>>Shredders side there are *two* FENs for *one* position. Ant thus there could
>>>not be bidirectional converting functions, full stop.
>>
>>Hi Reinhard,
>>If I understand correctly you claim that it is not possible to translate because
>>it is not clear if to translate FEN in shredder to position A in X-FEN or
>>position B in X-FEN(otherwise I see no problem in transaltion).
>
>>Can you give an example when position in Shredder's notation can be translated
>>to 2 different positions in X-FEN when both translations are possible?
>
>Uri,
>
>I already did this. But I can explain it more detailed on chess starting array:
>
>traditional: rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq -
>FRC  SP-518: rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w HAha -
>
>Reinhard.

Yes but it is only a problem if you want to translate from X-FEN to Shredder's
notation(what F. Huber already did) and it is practically no problem because in
that case we assume that HAha notation is used.

Uri



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