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Subject: Re: No Castling - No FRC

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 15:24:03 06/21/03

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On June 21, 2003 at 18:19:23, Sune Fischer wrote:

>IIRC they are given the start position and the moves made from there on, so that
>would include the latest castle.
>But it would be a small change in UCI to make it work I guess.
>
>I just don't see what good it would do, everytime one of the non-FRC engines
>lost the author would have an excuse or complain that his engine was being
>misused for something it wasn't designed for.
>
>You've heard how some complain about their engine being used with incremental
>clocks when it wasn't designed for it, I'm sure? ;)

I said it was _a_ solution, not a _good_ solution.


>When no knight moves are available anymore it will crash or lose
>on time.

This is legal, but I'll admit it's pretty poor chess. Don't forget the shortest
chess program is: printf("I resign\n"); Still legal!

:)



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