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Subject: Re: Is Suffle Chess Better Than FRC For Testing Engines?

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 02:57:01 03/04/06

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On March 04, 2006 at 05:28:49, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On March 03, 2006 at 23:44:04, Swaminathan wrote:
>
>>I wonder what exactly is wrong with shuffle chess?
>
>Nothing.  And shuffle chess is not better (nor worse) than FRC
>for testing engines.  They are simply two slightly different games,
>and which game you prefer is a matter of taste.

Veto! Of course Chess960 is a compatible superset to traditional chess.
Any Chess960 aware engine also could play traditional chess and also
Shuffle Chess. Thus there is a hierarchy of compatibility, where Chess960
is top and Shuffle Chess is bottom.

Chess960 is not merely some new chess variant.

Reinhard.

>What sort of game you should choose when testing engines
>depend on what you want to test.  If you want to test how well
> the engines play chess, just play chess.  If you want to test
>how well they play chess without their opening books, play chess,
>but use some pre-defined set of opening positions like the Silver
>or Noomen positions.  If you want to see how well they play FRC,
>let them play FRC.
>
>Tord



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