Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 08:53:34 06/21/03
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On June 21, 2003 at 11:29:26, Günther Simon wrote: >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 Chess Tiger CB versus Fritz 8.0.0.8 are playing the same starting position as Michael Adams vs Peter Leko. Forget the castling rules, these programs can handle any starting positions that you feed them. I made the first 8 FRC openings that were played between Adams and Leko as part of my testing match. Pichard.
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