Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 10:44:59 10/13/03
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On October 13, 2003 at 04:09:07, Richard Pijl wrote:
>On October 12, 2003 at 06:33:02, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>[D]rnqk1rn1/1pp1p2p/2bp2p1/p4pQ1/4P3/2NP2P1/PPP2P1P/R2K1RNB w KQkq a6
>>
>>frcbaron was considering 7.e1c1 but there was no piece sitting on e1 and
>>frcbaron stopped playing.
>
>Hi Jorge,
>
>- Did you include 'variant frc' in the baron.ini file? If not, Baron will write
>'e1c1' to Arena, meaning that Arena does not recognize the castling move. This
>is supposed not to be necessary in the latest Arena beta's, but I haven't tested
>that yet.
hash 50000
shash 9000
tbpath C:\Tablebase
cache 4096
patzer off
variant frc
end
This configuration uses about 58 Mb of hashtables
>- Are you using FRC Baron 1.0.3? In FRC Baron 1.0.3 you should see O-O-O, and
>not e1c1 when correctly configured.
Yes I am using FRC Baron 1.0.3
Size on Disk: 432 KB (442,368 bytes)
Modified : Saturday, July 19, 2003, 1:29:22 PM
In FRC Baron 1.0.2 (and earlier) Baron would
>write e1c1, but still castle correctly (writing O-O-O to Arena, so Baron should
>still respond).
>- Are you using Arena? If not, is the GUI you use FRC aware?
>
>If all of the above is true, I'll have to look further.
>
>I know it would be more intuitive to have 'variant frc' as default option in an
>'FRC' Baron. However, there are two reasons not to do that:
>
>- The winboard protocol assumes that a new game is a standard chess game unless
>the GUI sends the command 'variant <variant name>' to the engine. Making frc the
>default type of game violates the winboard protocol on this point. Arena does
>not send this command in the versions I've tested so far so that's why I added
>this configuration parameter. I didn't check the beta's from the ASA pages yet.
>- In the future 'FRC' Baron will get a different name, to indicate it can play
>multiple variants, which is currently limited to FRC and normal chess. It gets
>more 'fun' options as well (currently only FRC Baron has 'patzer' mode, see
>documentation for details).
>
>The variant 'threechecks' will be included in the next release of 'FRC' Baron. I
>really should think of a different name now. Suggestions anyone?
>
>Richard.
>
>>
>>[Event "Computer Schach Partie"]
>>[Site "Jorge's Place"]
>>[Date "2003.10.12"]
>>[Round "1"]
>>[White "frcbaron"]
>>[Black "chispa_396"]
>>[Result "*"]
>>[Time "10:01:01"]
>>[TimeControl "1800+2"]
>>[SetUp "1"]
>>[FEN "rnqkbrnb/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNQKBRNB w KQkq - "]
>>
>>1.d3 {0.16/12} g6 {-0.12/12} 2.Bc3 {0.05/11} Bxc3 {-0.10/14} 3.Nxc3 {0.03/12} d6
>>{-0.11/13} 4.Qg5 {0.11/11} Bc6 {0.06/11} 5.e4 {0.03/10} f5 {0.12/12} 6.g3
>>{0.20/9} a5
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