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

Author: F. Huber

Date: 00:56:07 07/28/05

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On July 27, 2005 at 18:31:12, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

>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.

Your Majesty, (or should I better call you ´God´?)

once again I´ve forgotten, that your opinion is the one and only truth in our
whole universe (and maybe also in all parallel universes, if they exist) -
I´m so sorry about having ignored this fact!

Please forgive us dumb, small idiots ...

Franz.




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