On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 11:52:08AM +0100, Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> AFAIK current tendency is to use just 'FEN' (not X-FEN) for chess960
FEN can't express all of the castling scenarios in chess960, but can
certainly handle a variety of starting positions. X-FEN is probably more
important in terms of exporting positions later in the opening or middle
game.
> scid and those loaded and replayed fine ... unless there was castling,
Castling in chess960 needs special support. If you're reading from PGN,
what should scid do for O-O or O-O-O if the king and rook aren't on the
normal squares? A particular example might be when only the king needs
to move to castle, because the rook is already on the correct square.
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