Author: Guido
Date: 00:17:07 08/25/99
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In my e-mail I wrote: "without losing compatibility with the current format", that means that data can be manually loaded in both formats or also in a mixing of the two formats. Obviously if I want to check the number of squares per rank and the number of ranks, I must follow the current FEN format. A switch can set/reset this option during input. But when computer programs sort or save records on the disk, there are no possibilities of errors (in well debugged programs!), and also some bytes saved can be an advantage when files contain millions of positions. The only question is: Is the proposed format equally readable by humans? IMHO yes. Guido
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