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Subject: Re: Chess960 Confusion by Reinhard Scharnagl

Author: F. Huber

Date: 04:28:56 08/01/05

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On August 01, 2005 at 07:15:47, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

>On August 01, 2005 at 06:41:17, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote:
>
>>>>[D]rbnqnrkb/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBNQNRKB w HFhf -
>>
>>Yeah, right. That makes allso the code easier for 960 castling verify ;)
>
>Hi, this is a fine example, that X-FEN still is well recommended for Chess960
>starting positions, because its tags fetched from merely "KQkq" would always
>chose one specific and DISTINGUISHABLE castling side to the affected King.
>
>Using file selection letters in such clear situations like Chess960 starting
>positions (or positions 'proposed' as that) is creating nothing but confusion,
>e.g. you could not decide at once whether that information really is consistent.
>
>Well introduced X-FEN is fully satisfied with the methods already included in
>old FEN, so especially starting positions are looking very familiar and they
>are moreover COMPATIBLE (especially the 18 Pseudo-FRC starting and derived
>positions), not like the strange Shredder-FEN format, as a gimmic creating two
>different FEN strings for such positions, just depending on your point of view.
>
>That will create unnecessary PGN / FEN doubles in databases and force the
>user to watch the FEN exactly first before he has to switch to the correct
>view and never forget about that. Such nonsense could be avoided by using
>X-FEN like has been done for years in several applications (e.g. SMIRF).
>
>See X-FEN: http://www.chessbox.de/xfen_e.html
>See Smirf: http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/schachsmirf_e.html
>
>Reinhard Scharnagl

Could you please finally stop posting again and again the same b...s... -
it´s really boring and annoying!

The problem in this thread has absolutely nothing to do with Shredder-FEN or
X-FEN, but was simply a misunderstanding of the FRC castling rules -
is this really so hard to understand for you?

Franz.




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