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Subject: Re: Why most programs don't use a standard Fen -X-Fen for Chess960 ?

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 10:57:44 02/18/06

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On February 18, 2006 at 12:31:18, Werner Mueller wrote:

>On February 18, 2006 at 10:40:01, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On February 18, 2006 at 10:38:11, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>A modification of the FEN-X-FEN was devised by Reinhard and still most programs
>>>don't use a standard one for Chess960.
>>>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_Random_Chess

>This entry is outdäted.
>The new (and better, because not confusing) standard was set by SMK and e.g.
>taken by ChessBase.

Please give an example, where X-FEN is confusing and Shredder-FEN is not.

Instead the opposite of your statement holds. So your statement is not based
on facts, but merely on propaganda. Whether a form is compatible or not does
not depend on popularity but simply on keeping the status quo or not. Take
the 18 pseudo-FRC positions as an example, and you could easily see the creating
of incompatible code twins for identical positions. Despite there is no
difference at all between the standard chess starting array and SP-518,
Shredder-FEN introduces different encodings, which obviously is nothing but
incompatible nonsense.

Reinhard.



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