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Subject: Re: Three questions

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 01:08:12 11/10/02

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On November 10, 2002 at 01:33:58, Paul Byrne wrote:

>On November 09, 2002 at 07:15:18, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>Well, the trick is to support different games without losing performance in the
>>primary game (chess!). I think only fischer-random requires special castling
>>rules, even shuffle chess can use ordinary rules just by removing castle rights.
>>So I think don't I will really be needing more than two such castle functions:)
>>
>>-S.
>
>Should you implement ICC's wild 1, that has slightly different castling rules
>also (King can start on the d-file).
>
>Guildenstern uses the virtual function approach now to make things more
>manageable -- but G plays losers, etc, where the rule changes are more
>involved.  There is a bit of a performance hit for this, but me and my
>sanity can live with that.  :)

Cool, what interface do you use for this, winboard?

Winboard doesn't support fischerrandom, Arena does however, I'm just not sure
the rules are the same as on ICC.

-S.
>-paul



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