Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 02:49:36 07/19/03
Go up one level in this thread
Hi, I suddenly realized that the problem is probably a different one. As Arena 0.93 doesn't send a string 'variant fischerandom' and I did want to support both standard chess and FRC with the same program, I made a configuration parameter telling what the default variant to play would be. If this parameter is not specified, the Baron would assume normal chess. So, why did it go wrong? Well, good question. The specification of 'variant' has only impact in the way castling moves are communicated. So when castling flags are specified like in the first position, the Baron still recognizes the FRC castling here as a possibility. But is goes wrong in communicating the castling move to Arena. It will specify for some reason e8c8 which is of course an illegal move. More or less the same happens in the second position. The Baron wants to castle, and writes e8c8. Well, here it is very obviously a bug. It should have written e1g1. I'll correct this. Anyway. To force the Baron to play FRC in Arena 0.93, an extra command is required in the baron.ini file: variant frc This will set the default game variant to play to FRC and castling notation should be ok then. I will release a version 1.0.3 for the FRC Baron this evening correcting both errors (in the Baron and in its documentation). thanks for reporting. bye, Richard.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.