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

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 15:31:12 07/27/05

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On July 27, 2005 at 18:05:52, F. Huber wrote:

>On July 27, 2005 at 17:46:22, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:
>
>>On July 27, 2005 at 15:28:33, Joseph Tadeusz wrote:
>>
>>>One point of view is that Steven Edwards made a mistake by choosing the
>>>inflexible KQ notation for FEN, wich has now been corrected by SMK.
>>>
>>>What you do with X-FEN is a workaround wich can lead to abberations like
>>>
>>> KgQbkgqc
>>
>>impossible in played games. Show me one game with three equal colored rooks.
>
>"impossible" is actually WRONG - "improbable" would be the correct word!
>
>>There are less than 1/1000000 of positions having an inner castling enabled rook
>>alone, so such constructable positions are even more irrelevant.
>
>"irrelevant"? Well, 1/1000000 of all possible chess positions (about 10^38 IIRC)
>are still quite a lot!

>You see: NONE of your arguments really convince ANYONE!
>
>Franz.

How would you know?

compatibility to 960 relevant Chess960 starting positions is ignored by
Shredder, whereas X-FEN is able to face some compromises in that addressed
point, whether you call it relevant or irrelevant does not matter at all.

Reinhard.



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