Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 09:36:04 07/19/03
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On July 19, 2003 at 11:28:42, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On July 19, 2003 at 09:52:44, Richard Pijl wrote: > >>On July 19, 2003 at 09:00:26, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On July 19, 2003 at 07:46:17, Richard Pijl wrote: >>> >>>>Hi, >>>> >>>>A small but confusing error in the Baron and omissions in the manual and >>>>standard baron.ini in the package resulted in the release of Baron FRC 1.0.3 >>>>Changes: >>>>- Fault in printing castling moves in the PV corrected when in standard mode >>>>- Parameter 'variant' for the configuration file added and explained in the >>>>readme.txt >>>>- Experimental support for the extended level command. >>>> >>>>Thanks to Jorge Pichard to make me aware of these problems >>>> >>>>There is no release of the standard Baron (doesn't contain the bug, and the >>>>parameter 'variant' is not applicable for that version). >>>> >>>>I'm very interested in experiences with the extended level command (too >>>>conservative time usage, losses on time) >>>> >>>>have fun, >>>>Richard. >>>> >>>>http://home.wanadoo.nl/richard.pijl >>> >>> >>>Version 103 still has the same problem as version 102. >>> >> >>Have you added the line 'variant frc' to your baron.ini file? >>bye, >>Richard. > >This is how my baron.ini looks like > >hash 50000 >shash 9000 >tbpath C:\Nalimov >cache 4096 >patzer off >variant frc >end > >This configuration uses about 58 Mb of hashtables Ok. I think I know what may have happened here. Did you start the game in Arena using "File - New 'Fischer Chess' " menu option? Or did you copy a start position into Arena and started the match from there? Using the last method I can reproduce the error you get. Using this method Arena is not aware of Fischer chess. So, the Baron wants to Castle according to the FRC rules, but Arena either does not recognize the castling move, or does not allow FRC castling. I think the only way of making Arena aware of FRC is to start the game as FRC in Arena. Not by copying a starting position FEN into it. I asked the question at the Arena support forum to ask whether there is a way of doing it. It seems the Error I fixed had nothing to do with the problem you reported. Anyway, it's fixed now... bye, Richard.
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