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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:21:18 07/27/05

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On July 27, 2005 at 12:13:30, Keith Evans wrote:

>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.
>
>Please give one specific example of when this is not possible. This would help
>to demonstrate your point.
>
>Keith

He already did it.

When you translate from Shredder-FEN to X-FEN you get
f(rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq -)=
f(rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w HAha -)

so you cannot have
f_invert(f(x)) == x

I think that it is not a problem because FRC and chess are 2 different games
from shredder point of view so there is no problem  in translation X_FEN to
FRC(you cannot translate X_FEN to shredder without knowing if it is shredder in
FRC mode or Shredder in chess mode).

Uri




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