Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:31:51 05/30/03
Go up one level in this thread
On May 30, 2003 at 13:18:10, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >On May 30, 2003 at 13:01:35, Uri Blass wrote: > >>No >>The castling rules are strange. >> >>If you ask people who know nothing about the rules of FRC to suggest >>generalization for castling in shuffle chess then >>I guess that most of them will suggest >>a different generalization of castling. >> >>I believe that most of the people will suggest that >>the king always move 2 squares to the right side or >>to the left side when the rook and the king change >>their order. > >There are some important differences between FRC and Shuffle Chess, see: >[http://www.rescon.de/Compu/fullchess6_e.html] . > >It is very important for the Fischer Random Chess to have asymmetric castling >rules. Because of that MIRRORED starting positions lead to DIFFERENT games >unlike in Shuffle chess. This is related to the original nature of chess game >and enriches the possibilities of Fischer random Chess. > >Regards, Reinhard I understand your point but I do not like it. I like symmetry. If you want game to be more complex then it is better to change the rules by other ways(for example adding a file to the board). Uri
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.