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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