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

Author: F. Huber

Date: 09:08:48 07/27/05

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On July 27, 2005 at 12:01:49, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

>On July 27, 2005 at 11:49:52, F. Huber 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.
>>
>>I really don´t need any help, Reinhard! ;-)
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>I always thought you are a programmer - but now I´m really in doubt about it!
>>Do you really want to say that it´s impossible to convert both following strings
>>"rqbnkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RQBNKBNR w KQkq -" and
>>"rqbnkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RQBNKBNR w HAha -" into the first one, i.e.
>>into X-FEN?
>>Have you ever heard about an ´IF´ statement?
>>It exists in ´C´, ´Pascal´, even in ´Basic´ ... ;-)
>>
>>Do you need an example in natural language?
>>"IF CastleTag is ´HAha´ THEN convert it to ´KQkq´ ELSE do nothing!"
>>
>>I hope, I could help improving your programming skills ... :-)
>
>Franz,
>
>you must have done big efforts to continue to misunderstand my point of view:
>
>There is no pair of functions f() and f_invert() so that f_invert(f(x)) == x
>when x is any of Shredder's possible FENs.
>
>Reinhard.

Hey, we´re talking about chess, but not about high-level mathematics!
(and even in mathematics I´m not that bad, since this was one of the subjects
in my study long ago ...)

But it´s really pointless to discuss with you ...

Franz.



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