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Subject: Re: Which Programs Play Fischer Random?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 23:50:44 10/21/02

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On October 21, 2002 at 17:05:19, Rick Terry wrote:

>does tiger 15?

I think that the rules of fisher random that I read in Arena are not logical.

It is not a generalization of the normal chess rules and I saw no rule that
there should be nothing between the king and the rook to allow castling.

A logical generlization of the castling rules should say that the king go to
distance one square from the rook and the rook goes to the second side but
surprisingly it is not the rule that I read in arena.

I see no reason for programmers to program a strange rule that is even not a
generalization of the normal castling rules.

I know nobody who play fisher random but it is logical to guess that if people
play it they play it by logical generalization of castling and not by some
strange rules that I read in arena.

Uri



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