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Subject: contradicting FEN and SMK-FEN

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 22:57:51 08/03/05


Here are some facts to objectify the discussion instead of flaming:

See following Chess960 position SP-518, you will know it:

[D]rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1

SMK-FEN: rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w AHah - 0 1
X-FEN:   rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
FEN:     rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1

Or look at following playable pseudo-FRC position SP-532 (one of 18 possible):

[D]rbbnkqnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBBNKQNR w KQkq - 0 1

SMK-FEN: rbbnkqnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBBNKQNR w AHah - 0 1
X-FEN:   rbbnkqnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBBNKQNR w KQkq - 0 1
FEN:     rbbnkqnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBBNKQNR w KQkq - 0 1

In both cases the castling tags are making the difference

Because of FEN and SMK-FEN being different, a decision for SMK-FEN will leave
behind any compatibility to traditional FEN without any need.

Reinhard.



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