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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