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

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 04:10:39 03/04/06

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On March 04, 2006 at 06:47:23, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On March 04, 2006 at 06:29:33, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:
>
>>Shuffle Chess is no superset to traditional chess, because it does not support
>>castlings.
>
>Are you sure?  I thought it did allow castlings, but only when the kings
>and rooks start out at the same positions as in normal chess. I apologize
>if I was wrong about this.

Please show me a definition of its castling procedure, I never have seen one.

>I don't see why this subset/superset stuff has any interest except
>when writing a computer program, though. I also don't understand how
>anyone can consider FRC not to be a chess variant.

Normally chess variants define distinct games. Chess960 is a superset to chess.
It includes traditional chess. So how could it be a variant to a part of itself?

Reinhard.



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