Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 06:18:04 09/17/05
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On September 17, 2005 at 09:02:52, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote: >On September 17, 2005 at 03:14:35, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: > >>Indeed, that would be good to know. Maybe there will be a transitional form. >> >>Reinhard, >btw: The new wb3 protocol will support both FEN's. I think its the best solution >and the engine author can decided what they want. Hi Daniel, a) I am waiting for a third one from Fritz; b) that would not solve the problem with existing databases, GUIs, PGN viewers etc. now facing different FENs for identic positions; c) Winboard always has supported (without a need as I think) three virtual variants: "normal", "nocastle" and "fischerandom", where the FEN already is containing all necessary information to distinguish between them, by providing castling rights or not; d) from the viewpoint of Chess960 (superset of chess) there is no need to switch also an UCI engine into a special Chess960 mode as I have explained in compatible suggestions to extend the UCI protocol appropriately; a UCI engine is able to ALWAYS play Chess960 and handle all extended FEN inputs correctly, and to do that all in a compatible way. Regards, Reinhard.
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