Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 support?

2007-12-24 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 10:49:57AM +0100, Marcin Kasperski wrote: > The only necessary information about castling is whether white can I'm not qualified to debate the issue, but there are apparrently plenty of serious people who consider FEN to be insufficient to represent all positions in chess9

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 support?

2007-12-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
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

[Scid-users] Chess960 support?

2007-12-06 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
How well does scid currently support chess960--or other variations, for that matter? Specifically, I don't believe that scid currently supports X-FEN, and I vaguely remember having a lot of grief trying to import PGN games marked "fischerandom" from FICS the last time I tried it. Have matters impr