Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 06:09:38 10/22/02
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On October 22, 2002 at 09:06:24, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On October 22, 2002 at 02:50:44, Uri Blass wrote: > >>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. > > >How do you apply your rule for O-O when the K starts on b1 and the Rs are on a1 >and c1? > > >> >>I see no reason for programmers to program a strange rule that is even not a >>generalization of the normal castling rules. > > >I believe the normal rule for fischer random is to put the K on g1 and R on f1 >for O-O or put the K on c1 and the rook on d1 for O-O-O. The transit [& destination] squares >must be unoccupied for both K & R. The King cannot be under attack on either its >begining, destination or transit squares. > >What could be simpler or more logical? What does Arena say the rule is? > > >> >>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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