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Subject: Ideological decision is necessary !

Author: Slobodan R. Stojanovic

Date: 14:38:05 06/21/03

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On June 21, 2003 at 17:25:06, Peter Berger wrote:

>On June 21, 2003 at 17:22:57, Slobodan R. Stojanovic wrote:
>
>>I think you don´t understand the main idea:
>>
>>In FRC we have a move named "castling". It is FRC castling.
>>It shouldn´t be forbiden participation of engines that don´t know how to do FRC
>>castling, but they must recognize their opponents´ FRC castling. This is the
>>point.
>
>Great, so at last someone starts to listen. Uri's idea takes care of this!


No Peter. I don´t know what was Uri´s idea. I suspect that it was reduce FRC
name to Shuffle chess. Anyway, some changes are necessary and compulsory for all
engines that want to play in FRC competitions. There are two options:

1) recognize opponents FRC castlind and be able to do it
2) only recognize opponents FRC castling and renounce the same move.

But I must say something very importante.

If we accept a participation of engines that don´t know how to do FRC castling,
all comercial engines would try this status, they could create with the time an
impression that castling is not necssary, because they win without castling, and
compromete the FRC, REDUCING IT FINALY AT THE LEVEL OF SHUFFLE CHESS.

It is a dangerour way for FRC fans, and noe we have to take an ideological
decision about this problem.

SL.



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