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Subject: Re: contradicting FEN and SMK-FEN

Author: Juan Pablo Naar C.

Date: 23:15:34 08/03/05

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On August 04, 2005 at 02:12:31, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On August 04, 2005 at 02:09:20, Juan Pablo Naar C. wrote:
>
>>On August 04, 2005 at 01:57:51, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>Hi Reinhard,
>>
>>What does AHah means? The castling?
>>
>>The question is, why did Stefan make his own FEN? Also, does that
>>incompatibility affect the other FRC engines that can work on Arena to play in
>>Shredder GUI?
>>
>>I've heard that Arena has FRC problems, now Shredder with incompatibility, when
>>will a full compatible FRC GUI will appear?
>
>Hopefully never! Chess wasn,t meant to be scambled. It goes against the nature
>of chess, imho.

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chess variants.



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