Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 02:01:01 07/19/03
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On July 19, 2003 at 04:25:32, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>On July 19, 2003 at 04:02:59, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>Fritz did NOT make an Illegal move as stated by the Arena 0.93 GUI. I had a
>>feeling that the newer version of FRCBaron_102 was NOT going to beat Fritz 8.008
>>but there must be a serious bug in frcbaron. The frcbaron was playing on an
>>Athlon 1200 GHz and Fritz 8.008 on my Celeron 433 MHz.
>>
>>[Event "Computer Schach Partie"]
>>[Site "S0025128408"]
>>[Date "2003.07.19"]
>>[Round "1"]
>>[White "frcbaron"]
>>[Black "default"]
>>[Result "0-1"]
>>[Time "07:25:17"]
>>[TimeControl "40/1200:40/1200:1200"]
>>[SetUp "1"]
>>[FEN "nqrnkbbr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/NQRNKBBR w KQkq - "]
>>
>>1.e4 Nb6 2.f4 c5 3.Be3 f6 4.Nc3 e6 {White resigns. Illegal move!} 0-1
>>
>>This is the Position where frcbaron resigned.
>>
I get the impression that you did not start an FRC game in Arena (where Arena
would select the position), but a normal game with a different game setup.
The difference is that in FRC games the castling notation in winboard is
different from the castling notation in normal chess. So in this case FRC Baron
tries to castle with O-O and in a standard chess game Arena doesn't allow this
as a valid move.
In the positions that you listed The Baron wants to castle, and writes O-O to
Arena. With standard chess, the Baron would write e1g1 or e8g8 and all would be
ok.
If you want to play a match between the Baron and a regular chess engine with
the 16 selected positions that will not change the castling rules, I suggest you
to use the standard Baron version (which is 2-3% faster as well). You should
only use the FRC version of the Baron when playing a 'real' FRC game where the
GUI is prepared to accept the FRC castling notation of Winboard.
bye,
Richard.
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