Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 07:00:15 06/18/04
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On June 18, 2004 at 09:41:10, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >A better forum to place your ideas in Germany would be the Arena Support >Forum [http://f22.parsimony.net/forum41668/]. Here both, German and English >language is accepted and FRC a topic theme. May be you can start a thread >to support 10x8 boards by a GUI, for what I see a need, too. There will probably be one before the end of the year, but unfortunately it will probably only run in Mac OS X. Support for 5x5, 8x8, 10x8 and 91-"square" hexagonal boards is planned. Straightforward generalizations of the FEN and UCI standards will be used. >But still there >is no matching GUI available, though I have made some suggestions to extend >FEN compatibly and to cover FRC, GothicChess and CRC by a sort of UCI protocol. I'm working on the same, as you understand. One suggestion: On the 10x8 board, use "startpos" to denote the Capablanca initial position, not the Gothic chess initial position. For Gothic chess games, simply send the FEN for the initial position instead. This is a nice solution to the patent problem with Gothic chess. Technically the engines will be CRC engines, and therefore avoid the Gothic Chess patent. But the engines will still be able to play Gothic chess if the GUI sends them the right FEN. As a result, everybody can write Gothic chess capable engines without paying any license. Only Gothic chess GUI authors need to pay. For hexagonal chess, Grzegorz and I have agreed to use a FEN variant where the initial position is encoded like this: "1prnqb/2p2bk/3p1b1n/4p3r/5ppppp/11/PPPPP5/R3P4/N1B1P3/QB2P2/BKNRP1 w" Tord
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