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Subject: Re: Forcing Top Programs to play FRC position and which play stronger !

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 03:17:46 06/21/03

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On June 21, 2003 at 05:48:26, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

>Hi Jorge,
>
>to set up FRC positions there exists a freeware FullChess FEN Editor
>at [http://www.rescon.de/Compu/fullchess7_e.html] (english/german),
>which can also help to visualize position images.

I prefer to use the Arena FRC GUI because I am too lazy to create a position
from scratch and under the Arena GUI I simply click under File and then
New-Fische-Chess and a new position is create automatically for me.


>FRC positions together with their castling rights and e.p. potential
>are NOT always encodable by traditional FEN. Therefore that editor
>introduces a slighty extended FRC-FEN, which is fully downwards
>compatible to all conventional chess positions. This FRC-FEN is
>explained at [http://www.rescon.de/Compu/fullchess5_e.html] (english/german).
>
>Please do not forget, that today still only three engines exist, which are
>FRC aware. Overmore there still are some problems to accept all FRC-FEN
>positions correctly even in Arena GUI, which is a wonderfull FRC enabling
>pioneer in the world of GUIs.
>
>Reinhard



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