Author: Slobodan R. Stojanovic
Date: 18:51:30 06/21/03
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On June 21, 2003 at 20:35:02, Dana Turnmire wrote: >>FRC fans shouldn´t allow participation of professional chess engines in FRC >>competiotions if they don´t know how to do FRC castling. >> >>This is the only way to protect FRC from mutilation and other agressions. >>In my opinion it is the principal condition for survival of FRC. >> >>SL. > >Why is it acceptable to mutilate classical chess with something called Fischer >Random Chess but not acceptable to modify this variant of classical chess? Classical chess is not mutilated by FRC. The discovery of FRC represented the return of classical chess to its Mather Land. Because FRC contains 960 starting positions, and classical chess starting position is only one of them. So: classical chess is only one of FRC variants. But you are confused because we first descovered a variant of the chess game, and only many centuries after that we recognize that fact and descovered the generic mather game, FRC. Classical chess is not mutilated by FRC, because it is like a child who at once descovered his unknowen mother. This reencounter between them could never be considered as mutilation. They, in fact, complement each other. Shuffle chess is another complement, another parent, who remind us the time before the invention of castling move. LOOK HOW MANY CHESS VARIANTS WE HAVE: (http://www.chessvariants.com/index/mainquery.php?type=Any&orderby=LinkText&displayauthor=1&displayinventor=1&showimages=1&showtextnotes=1&listrecognizedonly=1&primarylinksonly=1&usethisheading=Recognized+Chess+Variants) Chaturanga - the oldest known form of chess Chaturanga for four players Shatranj. The widely played historic Persian game, predecessor of modern chess Tamerlane chess. A well-known historic large variant of Shatranj Avalanche chess Chess with Different Armies Crazy 38's Dragonchess Extinction chess Smess Los Alamos Chess Losing Chess Magnetic Chess Marseillais Chess Grand Chess - chess variant on 10 by 10 board Omega Chess Pocket knight Progressive Chess Kriegspiel Tandem Chess Shogi - Japanese Chess Minishogi Changgi: Korean Chess Xiangqi - Chinese Chess Flip Chess and Flip Shogi Glinski's Hexagonal Chess McCooey's Hexagonal chess Ultima Tridimensional Chess (Star Trek). Three-dimensional chess from Star Trek Raumschach Bughouse Wildebeest Chess Orthodox Chess - classical chess TELL ME NOW, WHY DID YOU SELECT FRC TO ACCUSE IT FOR MUTILATING CLASSICAL CHESS? SL. >I don't see why castling could not be allowed only when the King and one of the >rooks are on their "normal" squares which could occur quite often (everytime >the Kings are on the e square there is a good possibility one of the rooks >will be on the a or h squares.) Do you know the FRC castling rules ? You should read about before discussing them. SL. > >En Passant is certainly applied to all games but not in all games is this legal >move able to be applied. The *only* reason I would support tournaments between >computer programs with castling being allowed only when the King and one rook >are on their "normal" starting squares is it would be a shame if all current >programs were to become obsolete overnight.
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