Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 00:36:18 07/20/03
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On July 19, 2003 at 12:36:04, Richard Pijl wrote: >On July 19, 2003 at 11:28:42, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On July 19, 2003 at 09:52:44, Richard Pijl wrote: >> >>>On July 19, 2003 at 09:00:26, Jorge Pichard wrote: >>> >>>>On July 19, 2003 at 07:46:17, Richard Pijl wrote: >>>> >>>>>Hi, >>>>> >>>>>A small but confusing error in the Baron and omissions in the manual and >>>>>standard baron.ini in the package resulted in the release of Baron FRC 1.0.3 >>>>>Changes: >>>>>- Fault in printing castling moves in the PV corrected when in standard mode >>>>>- Parameter 'variant' for the configuration file added and explained in the >>>>>readme.txt >>>>>- Experimental support for the extended level command. >>>>> >>>>>Thanks to Jorge Pichard to make me aware of these problems >>>>> >>>>>There is no release of the standard Baron (doesn't contain the bug, and the >>>>>parameter 'variant' is not applicable for that version). >>>>> >>>>>I'm very interested in experiences with the extended level command (too >>>>>conservative time usage, losses on time) >>>>> >>>>>have fun, >>>>>Richard. >>>>> >>>>>http://home.wanadoo.nl/richard.pijl >>>> >>>> >>>>Version 103 still has the same problem as version 102. >>>> >>> >>>Have you added the line 'variant frc' to your baron.ini file? >>>bye, >>>Richard. >> >>This is how my baron.ini looks like >> >>hash 50000 >>shash 9000 >>tbpath C:\Nalimov >>cache 4096 >>patzer off >>variant frc >>end >> >>This configuration uses about 58 Mb of hashtables > >Ok. I think I know what may have happened here. >Did you start the game in Arena using "File - New 'Fischer Chess' " menu option? >Or did you copy a start position into Arena and started the match from there? > >Using the last method I can reproduce the error you get. Using this method Arena >is not aware of Fischer chess. So, the Baron wants to Castle according to the >FRC rules, but Arena either does not recognize the castling move, or does not >allow FRC castling. > >I think the only way of making Arena aware of FRC is to start the game as FRC in >Arena. Not by copying a starting position FEN into it. I asked the question at >the Arena support forum to ask whether there is a way of doing it. Federico Corigliano answered the question in the Arena Support forum. It involves one additional action to setup FRC positions. See: http://www.f22.parsimony.net/forum41668/messages/23378.htm Richard >It seems the Error I fixed had nothing to do with the problem you reported. >Anyway, it's fixed now... > >bye, >Richard.
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