Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 14:48:05 04/16/99
Go up one level in this thread
On April 16, 1999 at 17:13:20, Mark Ryan wrote:
>On April 16, 1999 at 02:55:59, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>
>>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
>
>Sorry, I'm not quite clear on the castling notation. If:
>
>r3k2r/8/8/8/8/8/8/R3K2R w
>
>and White can only castle kingside,
>and Black can only castle queenside,
>how should the notation look?
>
>Thanks,
>Mark
White castle kingside = Uppercase K
Black castle queenside = Lowercase q
like this:
r3k2r/8/8/8/8/8/8/R3K2R w Kq -
The last hypen says that there's no e.p. here.
//Peter
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.