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Chess variants (10x8)

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23. December 2004, 00:40:12

SMIRF Engine

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Subject: Re: How to view Janus Chess PGN files?

Modified by SMIRF Engine (23. December 2004, 00:42:07)

andreas:
As I have explained already several times, a PGN file starting with another than the original standard 8x8 chess initial position would need per PGN definition a SetUp tag and a FEN tag. It is not good, that PGN files here do not contain that important information. Because how should Smirf know about the starting position? You have to add manually two following (not broken) lines after the other starting tags:

[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rjnbkqbnjr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/
RJNBKQBNJR w sKQkq - 0 1"]

You will also get that lines when saving a PGN file using Smirf locally or into the clipboard. By that you could see how a correct PGN file would look like.

That procedure also would work for other variants with different starting arrays. They all have different FEN strings because of their different starting arrays.