Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 23:55:59 04/15/99
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On April 16, 1999 at 01:25:29, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>On April 16, 1999 at 01:01:30, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On April 16, 1999 at 00:44:13, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On April 16, 1999 at 00:28:52, Terry Ripple wrote:
>>>
>>>> I dont know how to read ur Test Position! Where can i learn how to read this?
>>>>Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thankyou in advance, Terry
>>>
>>>This is how you workout Forsyth Notation
>>>
>>>1. The pieces are represented by letters, White pieces are Capital Letters,
>>>Black are are the small case letters
>>>
>>>2. The Number represent empty squares on the board.
>>>
>>>3. the / mean that it is the end of the row
>>>
>>>4. The way you set up a board is as follows
>>>
>>>Start at the top left square, then go to the right till the end of the row, then
>>>proceed to the line below and follow the same method.
>>>
>>>At the end of the notation line you will notice a (W) or a (B) indicating
>>>whether its is black or white to move.
>>>
>>>So for a brand New game, with pieces at their starting position, the notation
>>>would look like this
>>>
>>>rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/pppppppp/RNBQKBNR/ - - W
>>
>>rather,
>>rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR/ - - W
>>
>>Dave
>
>I see places for castling... is the lack of an en passant capture indicated only
>when one might be possible based on where the pawns are in the position?
>
>Dave
rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
There is no "/" following the last "R".
The "w" (or "b") is lower-case.
The "KQkq" is castling, white flags are upper-case. If castling is not legal,
there will be a hyphen ("-").
The hyphen following the "KQkq" could also be a square, for instance e3, which
is the target of an en-passant capture, if one is legal.
The "0" is the number of plies (not moves) since an irreversible move.
The "1" is the move (not ply) number.
An obsolete dialect of FEN uses "nil" instead of hyphen.
bruce
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