Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 14:52:23 07/27/03
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On July 27, 2003 at 17:01:42, Richard Pijl wrote:
>On July 27, 2003 at 08:22:43, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>I started playing against frcbaron103 on my Athlon 1200 GHz and for some unknown
>>reason or BUG it resigned.
>
>This happens when you set up the position manually in Arena without letting
>Arena know it's an FRC game. You should either:
>- Let Arena pick the starting position by selecting 'Start new FRC game'
>- Use a Trick posted by Federico (Chispa) on the FCP forum:
> First load the EPD, the go to setup position and select FRC
>What FRC Baron tries to do in this position is castling. It does it correctly by
>sending the string O-O. Arena doesn't understand this when it doesn't know you
>started an FRC game and treats the move as an illegal move and resign on the
>Baron's behalf. The Baron did not resign, the GUI adjudicated the game because
>it wasn't aware the FRC rules applied.
>Richard.
>
Thanks now is working fine under Arena
Pichard
>>
>>[Event "Computer Schach Partie"]
>>[Site "S0025128408"]
>>[Date "2003.07.27"]
>>[Round "1"]
>>[White "Jorge Pichard"]
>>[Black "frcbaron103"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>[Time "12:03:38"]
>>[TimeControl "1200+1"]
>>[SetUp "1"]
>>[FEN "rbnnkrbq/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBNNKRBQ w KQkq - "]
>>
>>1.Nc3 f5 2.Nd3 c6 3.f4 Bc4 4.e3 e5 5.fxe5 g6 6.Ne2 Bxe5 7.c3 Nb6 8.Nd4 Ne6
>>9.Nxe6 dxe6 10.Bc2 {Black resigns. Illegal move!} 1-0
>>
>>[D]r3kr1q/pp5p/1np1p1p1/4bp2/2b5/2PNP3/PPBP2PP/R3KRBQ w KQkq -
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