Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 14:56:49 06/21/03
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On June 21, 2003 at 17:15:07, Russell Reagan wrote: >On June 21, 2003 at 17:02:39, Slobodan R. Stojanovic wrote: > >>You and your friends can organize competitions in shuffle chess. It´s your right >>and your freedom. But if you want to participate in FRC competitions, you´ll >>have to change your engines the way they can make castling moves, considering >>all FRC castling rules. > >What is so hard for you FRC fanatics to understand about this? If an engine can >play legal FRC, then it can play legal FRC, period. If it never castles, that >doesn't mean it doesn't play FRC. Pretty simple to me. > >If you and I play a game of FRC, and I choose to never castle, but I still win, >are you going to say, "You didn't play legal FRC!"? No, that is ridiculous. That >is like if you asked me to play a game of chess, and I beat you, and then you >declare that you have won by the rules of "losers chess". It doesn't have to castle itself, but it should recognize the opponent's moves as legal. Just like you don't have to under promote or capture e.p., it is just that we can't have your engine crashing every time the opponent does a move like that. One could solve it by making the GUI to setup the position a new after such a move, but I think that is a bit much to ask of the GUI programmers. Not only that, I'd say an engine simply doesn't play the game legally if it doesn't know the rules. -S. -S.
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