Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 10:30:09 07/19/03
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On July 19, 2003 at 12:36:04, Richard Pijl wrote: > 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 theFRC rules, but Arena either does not recognize the castling move, or > does notallow FRC castling. Hi Richard, may be you remember my statements in the FRC-Forum on the problem, that Winboard artificially forces the GUI to distinguish between 'normal', 'fischerrandom' or 'nocastle', which overmore leads to an unmotivated different encoding of castlings, even when affected king and rook are on their conventional positions. As far as I understood, those variants might be necessary only at WB-I. Communicating board positions via FEN, or better FRC-FEN supplies the engine with all and every information to handle all those three 'variants' correctly, without any need to make differences here. But for this WB-II or newer have to be used (as far as I know, and I am not a WB expert). By all that avoidable problems arised without any need, when playing with an FRC-aware WB-engine under a conventional GUI or sometimes when playing conventional chess under the Arena GUI with an FRC engine. So why not correct the WB protocols in those points, where it is specifying unnecessary distinguishing rules targeting on FRC? Regards, Reinhard.
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