Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 08:56:37 06/12/04
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On June 12, 2004 at 10:19:59, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >On June 12, 2004 at 10:01:03, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On June 12, 2004 at 09:55:16, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On June 12, 2004 at 06:52:15, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >>> >>>>English: Dear friends of FRC, >>>> >>>>all my actually pages will also remain at Compuserve during the next time, >>>>but the true Web-address of it from today is: [http://www.chessbox.de] . >>>> >>>>The link, directly leading to the FRC pages (in English and German) now is: >>>>[http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/fullchess1_e.html] . >>>> >>>>I beg you, to appropriately modify existing links to my site, thank you! >>>> >>>>Regards, Reinhard. >>>>---------------- >>>> >>>>Deutsch: Hallo FRC-Freunde, >>>> >>>>meine bisherigen Seiten auf Compuserve bleiben zwar bis auf Weiteres erhalten, >>>>jedoch lautet ab heute die korrekte Web-Adresse: [http://www.chessbox.de] . >>>> >>>>Der direkte Link zu den FRC-Seiten (in Deutsch und Englisch) ist nun: >>>>[http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/fullchess1.html] . >>>> >>>>Ich bitte darum, bisherige Links auf meine Site entsprechend zu ändern, danke! >>>> >>>>Gruß, Reinhard. >>> >>>Thanks for your effort in promoting FRC, eventually it is gaining popularity as >>>people discover how to play it. I hope that in the near future strong programs >>>like Shredder and Hiarcs will support FRC and their programmer challenge the >>>current FRC Champion. > >>PS: It would be exciting to see a strong FRC program play against the Current >>FRC Champion, and to see how human handle a program without known or memorized >>openings >> >>http://www.chesstigers.de/ > >Hello Jorge, > >after my heavy accident at end of last year my convalescence makes good >progress. So after writing the FRC book mentionend at my site, which will be >available during July 2004, I will continue my interrupted approaches to FRC. > >As some of us would know, I published some beta versions of a FRC mating engine >call SmirfMate, which was working fine and really fast - if not compared to >special mating engines. SmirfMate has not been a special mating engine in the >sense of that word, but it simply has had a reduced evaluation function. Because >of that it seemed to be a very promising approach. > >I am now continuing the work on Smirf, also trying to enable it to play the >'FullChess suite', consisting of 8x8 FRC and 10x8 Capablanca Random Chess, >to which variant apply nearly the same rules as to FRC, plus the demand for >queen and archbishop to be placed on differend colored squares because of their >implicite nature of a bishop, and because randomizing would become possible >using a normal dice for the initial drawing. > >But still there a GUI is missing for CRC. > >That year I probably will be present at the Mainz Chess Classic 2004, because >I try to support its chairmann H.-W. Schmitt by introducing the new FRC book, >and - though I am a very weak player myself - take part in the Chess960 Open. > >It would be really good to have a GM competitive FRC engine, I agree! > >Regards, Reinhard. Since you are going to be present at the Mainz Chess Classic 2004, you can make a suggestion to H.-W. Schmitt. Either this year or next year Shredder8 or Hiarcs can play 3 games versus the reigning FRC Champion by using three of the 15 FRC-PGN positions from Stefan Pohl. These three positions can be randomly chosen. Jorge
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