Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 03:51:55 07/28/05
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On July 28, 2005 at 06:11:41, Janosch Zwerensky wrote: > >>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. > >So what? Using standard decimal expansion notation, there are also *two* ways to >write down any *single* natural number. This does not at all stop the modern >numeral system from being useful... >Of course, in the case of Shredder-FEN, uniqueness can be achieved at close to >no cost simply by converting Chess960-positions which are compatible with >standard chess castling rules back to traditional FEN. > >Regards, >Janosch Janosch, would you like to have identic positions and games as hardly to be detected doubles in PGN files or databases? But the most relevat point is, that this way FENs and PGNs will be produced, which are incompatible to actually used X-FENs / PGNs in online-servers, game databases, PGN viewers, GUIs and engines, etc. ... The existing of different FENs for one position is the obvious proof of having chosen an incompatible FEN variant in Shredder. Reinhard.
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