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Subject: Re: Fischer Random Chess And FEN

Author: Dana Turnmire

Date: 12:52:44 12/28/02

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On December 28, 2002 at 11:59:28, John Merlino wrote:

>On December 28, 2002 at 11:02:42, Dana Turnmire wrote:
>
>>Would anyone know why Chessmaster 9000 will not accept this FEN position and
>>Genius 7 will?  I had to use position setup for CM9000 after which it works
>>fine.
>>
>>[d]rbnkbnrq/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBNKBNRQ w - - 0 1
>
>Worked fine for me. Here is CM9000's output for this position:
>
>Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
>0:00	1/3	-0.04	459		1.Nd3 Ne6 2.Ne3 c6
>0:00	1/3	0.07	587		1.Ne3 Ne6 2.c3 c6
>0:00	1/4	0.36	2152		1.Ne3 Ne6 2.c3 c6 3.d4
>0:00	1/4	0.38	2383		1.g3 c6 2.d4 Ne6 3.c3
>0:00	1/5	0.15	4786		1.g3 c6 2.d4 Nd6 3.Ne3 Ne6
>0:00	1/6	0.35	18463		1.g3 c6 2.d4 Ne6 3.c3 d5 4.Ne3
>0:01	1/7	0.21	57349		1.g3 c6 2.d4 Ne6 3.d5 Nc7 4.c4 g6
>0:02	1/8	0.27	126491		1.g3 c6 2.d4 g6 3.e3 e5 4.c3 d5
>					5.Nd2
>0:08	1/9	0.13	495724		1.g3 c6 2.d4 g6 3.Ba5+ b6 4.Bc3
>					e5 5.d5 f5 6.Nd2
>0:22	1/10	0.22	1363422		1.g3 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd3 g6 4.c3 Nd7
>					5.e4 dxe4 6.Qxe4
>1:17	2/11	0.20	4954816		1.g3 c6 2.d4 Nb6 3.Ba5 g5 4.c3
>					e5 5.Nb3 Ne6 6.e3 d5
>
>Are you sure that you used this EXACT string, instead of one that might have had
>different castling rights? CM9000 does not understand castling in Fischer Random
>chess.
>
>jm

It probably has something to do with castling rights.  I simply copied the
string from a Fischer Random generator.  Genius 7 took it but CM9000 didn't.
Thanks.



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