Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 00:23:24 04/16/99
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On April 16, 1999 at 02:55:59, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>On April 16, 1999 at 01:25:29, Dave Gomboc wrote:
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>>On April 16, 1999 at 01:01:30, Dave Gomboc wrote:
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>>>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
Well CM6K accepts the capital W and B.
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