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Subject: Re: Why did FrcBaron_102 resigned so early against Fritz 8.0.0.8

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 03:00:06 07/19/03

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On July 19, 2003 at 05:01:01, Richard Pijl wrote:

>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.

Hi Richard

Why does FRC slow you down 2-3%?

I know it's going to be a little slower, because it doesn't seem possible to
unroll the loops when generating castle moves, but 2-3% is a lot IMO, castle
moves shouldn't be that frequent.

Is it an evaluation issue perhaps?

-S.



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