Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:21:12 06/21/03
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On June 21, 2003 at 10:15:14, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On June 21, 2003 at 09:55:12, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: > >>On June 21, 2003 at 09:44:47, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On June 21, 2003 at 09:34:50, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >>> >>>>It already would be a great day, when Shredder would be able to play full FRC. >>>> >>>>Reinhard >>> >>>http://www.beepworld.de/members53/frc-list/ >> >>You refer to the pretty site of Stefan Pohl. But you will have noticed, >>that he is testing only 15 positions, where king and rooks are still >>starting from their traditional positions. So engines net not to be FULL >>FRC aware. >> >>From playing only this simple set to ALL 960 starting variants is a >>long way to go for Shredder. Only three engines has reached that goal, >>and still will be improved by their authors, because engines and GUI >>yet have a lot of compatibility tasks to do, though it already is a >>great work. >> >>Reinhard > >The 960 starting variants is easy to convert by saving those positions as a pgn >file and then selecting the pgn file as the opening database for the engine >under chessbase GUI. > >Pichard The problem is that the engines and the gui do not support the rules correctly if you put different positions. I do not think that it is a hard problem to fix but for me this is not important and the positions that were played are included in FRC and there is no known theory for all of them except one. Uri
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