Author: Günther Simon
Date: 08:29:26 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 You still have not understood, that there are only 2-3 programs around at all, which are capable to play really FRC and that there is still not _any_ GUI yet, which supports FRC in all points. hint -> FRC castling rules Therefore only those positions were played in your link example, when the same King and Rook positions happened as in normal chess, to simulate a crippled version of FRC... Regards, Günther
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