Author: Matthias Gemuh
Date: 04:51:30 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 I would of course like to see Shredder support several types of FEN. Shredder-FEN is easy to understand and is therefore a nice standard. It will surely not be sacrificed because of subsets or supersets of normal chess with no GUIs. I read somewhere that some castlings tags of X-FEN are 4 characters long, while some are 5. If that is true, then that is not good at all. Shredder-FEN does not have such a nasty problem. Matthias.
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