Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:32:12 06/21/03
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On June 21, 2003 at 13:08:43, Stefan Pohl wrote: >On June 21, 2003 at 12:50:31, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: > >>Hi Stefan, >> >>it is very intersting to see engines having a very different behaviour >>when playing FRC games. >> >>But conventional engines cannot at all represent the currend development >>of FRC aware engines. So it does not make any sense to declare an engine >>because of your test to be the best FRC engine. This is like declaring >>the winner of a 100 meter sprint to be the world decathlon champion. >> >>There are 960 FRC starting positions, and it would be very contraproductive >>to the development of FRC aware engines, when discriminating the existing >>three FRC engines [http://www.rescon.de/Compu/Fullchess5_e.html] (bottom) >>by comparing them to professional non-FRC engines. >> >>So you may call it Micro-FRC tournament to avoid such unecessary confusions, >>but not FRC tournament. Even any traditional game of chess is an FRC game, >>because Fischer Random Chess is an upper set to chess. But it is absolutly >>misleading to claim the current computer chess champion to be the real FRC >>champion too. So please think it over. >> >>Regards, Reinhard > >Sorry Reinhard, do you want to play (in the future) a tournament with the best >10 engines and all 960 FRC-positions??? Thats the only FRC-tournament, which is >no "Micro-FRC"... Will take 100-200 years, I think. And by the way: Each >tournament of engines (normal chess) with opening books or the >noomen-select-positions is only "Micro-Chess", because not ALL possible opening >moves are used...So all computertournaments (normal chess) in the last 20 years >are "Micro-Chess" and worthless??? >Perhaps you should think it over... > >Greetings - Stefan Pohl I think that a tournament when in every game a random FRC position is chosen is good to choose the FRC champion. programs that do not support castling should be allowed like programs that do not play underpromotion in normal chess. My opinion is that the tournament is an FRC tournament but not enough to choose world champion in FRC. Uri
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