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

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 05:30:31 03/04/06

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On March 04, 2006 at 08:12:11, Uri Blass wrote:

>On March 04, 2006 at 07:32:57, Tord Romstad wrote:
><snipped>
>>>Please show me a definition of its castling procedure, I never have seen one.
>>
>>I thought the castling procedure was exactly like in normal chess.  As I said, I
>>could be wrong.  I don't care much either way, really.
>
>It is also my understanding.
>
>Based on my understanding
>castling in shuffle chess is allowed only if the king and the rook did not move
>and the white king is at the square e1 and one of the rooks is in the corner of
>the board.

Uri, what you describe might be Pseudo-FRC or the way traditional chess programs
would handle Shuffle Chess. But Shuffle Chess itself does not know castling.
Nevertheless, there is not a unique Shuffle Chess. There are variants of Shuffle
Chess, where Bishops have to be placed upon different colored squares. These all
are signs for Shuffle Chess not been widly accepted as a unique variant in
contrast to the well understood and recognized variation Chess960. There also is
a WNCA (World New Chess Association) for Chess960. There seems to be no
comparable organization for Shuffle Chess.

Reinhard.



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