Carlos Cetina wrote on Sat, May 31, 2014 12:55 PM UTC:
True, I did not express the idea correctly.
The point is that in random variants is important to know the starting setup if you want to review a game OTB reading the moves directly from a paper sheet; in variants whose starting setup is always the same it is not so important that this position be recorded.
Ideally it would be nice that when you click PRINT both positions be recorded: the starting and the current. It's understood that normally you will print finished games.
By the way, there is a lot of Fischer Random Chess logs broken with messages such as "ILLEGAL: N c1-b3 on turn 3: There was no N on c1. The piece on c1 is a K. Go back and try again." [j_carrillo_vii-fergus-2004-138-495]
The point is that in random variants is important to know the starting setup if you want to review a game OTB reading the moves directly from a paper sheet; in variants whose starting setup is always the same it is not so important that this position be recorded.
Ideally it would be nice that when you click PRINT both positions be recorded: the starting and the current. It's understood that normally you will print finished games.
By the way, there is a lot of Fischer Random Chess logs broken with messages such as "ILLEGAL: N c1-b3 on turn 3: There was no N on c1. The piece on c1 is a K. Go back and try again." [j_carrillo_vii-fergus-2004-138-495]