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Subject: Re: contradicting FEN and SMK-FEN

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 23:17:56 08/03/05

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On August 04, 2005 at 02:15:34, Juan Pablo Naar C. wrote:

>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.
>
>Nothing will never replace classic chess, but it is fun and creative to play
>chess variants.

I agree with this, but some think it's a solution, and I don't share that
opinion.



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