Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 11:24:57 07/19/03
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On July 19, 2003 at 13:30:09, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >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. I remember. But that is not the issue here. The issue is that the GUI doesn't know it is playing FRC and rejects valid FRC castling moves. This is not a protocol problem. Richard.
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