Reinhard Scharnagl
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Reinhard Scharnagl (born 1953) is author of a book about the future of the game of Chess, inventor of Capablanca Random Chess and the Chess960 Enumbering Scheme and developer of the chess variant program SMIRF.
[edit] Chessbook author
Scharnagl is the author of the book Fischer-Random-Schach (FRC / Chess960) - Die revolutionäre Zukunft des Schachspiels (inkl. Computerschach), ISBN 3-8334-1322-0. Since 2001 he has been trying to advance and popularize Fischer Random Chess, today more commonly called Chess960, particularly in the area of programming. Scharnagl pioneered X-FEN, a necessary extension of the traditional Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) that provides a downward compatible encoding of Chess960 positions. The worldwide standard Chess960 Enumbering Scheme of all 960 starting positions in Chess960 also originated with him.
[edit] Chess variants
Scharnagl is the inventor of Capablanca Random Chess (CRC), a variant basing on the 10x8 chessboard and Jose Raul Capablanca's extended piece set (additional pieces- the chancellor and the archbishop). He also has written the 8x8 and 10x8 multivariant chess program SMIRF.
