Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 10:57:36 05/30/03
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On May 30, 2003 at 13:31:51, Uri Blass wrote: >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). Then it's not chess anymore. Just the fact that the board would no longer be 8x8 means a complete rewrite, bitboards and 0x88 would not be possible. It would be very hard to sell this one (no power of two?) to the computer chess community. FRC is 100 times easier to support, at least for me hehe ;) But think also of all the wooden chessboards all over the world, they would be useless for this game. FRC is good because it puts a spin on normal chess, you could actually learn something about chess by playing FRC, I think. I have played it a few times and it really is a lot of laughs, it's new, it's exciting, it's unchartered terrain, yet it is chess. -S. >Uri
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