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Subject: Re: is there any chess program supporting fischere-random-chess

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 06:19:51 02/03/02

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On February 03, 2002 at 07:04:16, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>On February 03, 2002 at 06:57:05, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>On February 03, 2002 at 06:34:14, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>>
>>>The new arena and Fritz 7 have Fischer random chess, in Fritz 7 you just go to:
>>>New--Shuffle chess
>>>In Arena you go to:
>>>File--New-Fischer-Chess
>>>In arena you can also have the engines play fischer random matches!
>>
>>brilliant. i did not know this.
>>
>>is there a difference between shuffle chess and fischer random chess ?
>>
>>
>>i wonder. maybe chessbase was afraid of beeing sued by bobby :-))
>>
>I am not an expert in Fischer Random, but the shuffle feature in Fritz 7 should
>be the same, i think that you are right when you say they had trouble calling it
>"The F" words :)

The generated positions in Fritz 7 are not Fischer-Random legal positions.
There must be one rook on each side of the king I think, also in F-R you can
castle (don't ask me how :).

-S.




>Regards
>Jonas



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