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Subject: Re: Please, stop it.

Author: Lars Bremer

Date: 04:45:50 08/03/05

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On August 03, 2005 at 06:53:05, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 03, 2005 at 06:22:53, Matthias Gemuh wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Please, stop this X-FEN nonesense !
>>It is now that the world is awakening to Chess960.
>>It is now that standards are being set.
>>It is now that a boom in developing Chess960 engines starts.
>>Whatever pseudo-standards existed in Chess960 will now be corrected and any
>>existing software updated accordingly.
>>The whole Chess960 world is thankful to SMK for his stable and affordable
>>Chess960 GUI that greatly boosts Chess960.
>>It is all that short and simple.
>>
>>Matthias.
>
>I think that it is better if SMK decide to add X-FEN support to shredder so
>users will be able to choose between compatible notation to chess and notation
>that is not compatible.
>
>It is also better if engines that use different notation will also be able to
>play under shredder interface in this case because in case of castling or in
>case of giving fen shredder may get the notation of one engine and translate it
>to the notation of the second engine and send the information to the second
>engine.
>
>I see no reason not to support more options and if shredder is not able to read
>pgn that are published with the old notation or is not able to give pgn in the
>old notation then it is a disadvantage of shredder.
>
>Uri

Hi Uri,

It does not matter whether the format is called X-FEN or Shredder-FEN, the real
problem is that is called "FEN" and "PGN". What happens when the user clicks on
a PGN file? Right, a pgn viewer starts and shows the game list. I use Chessbase
9 for that purpose. Since I don't open checkers games or reversi games with
Chessbase I have not the wish to open FRC games with it. If the game file has a
*.pgn extension, I (and the operating system) cannot decide what is insinde,
chess games oder frc games. It would be more useful to call it *.pgn and
*.pgn960, for instance. So I can open chess games with a chess program and frc
games with a frc program without looking inside the file before. *That* would be
a real compatible solution in my eyes because there wouldn't be a re-definiton
of an existing format. It is ridiculous to fill beer in wine bottles.

ciao
Lars



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