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Subject: Re: Fischer Random Chess - engine matches/tournaments

Author: Christopher Morgan

Date: 11:54:18 09/04/04

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On September 04, 2004 at 12:58:39, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

>Hi Chrisopher,
>
>Fischer Random Chess is by far not the same as Shuffle Chess. Enabling of
>castlings is essential. But there are some positions (18 from 960) which may be
>executable on most engines. Here [http://www.beepworld.de/members53/frc-list/]
>at Stefan Pohl's pages you can find some results for tests on this Pseudo FRC .
>
>At my pages [http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/fullchess1_e.html] you can read some
>texts to the FRC theme, too. And you can find a special FullChess FEN-Editor
>[http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/fullchess7_e.html] for 8x8 FRC and 10x8 CRC.
>
>I understand your intention to avoid lookup knowledge, because using huge
>opening libraries or table bases will prevent improvings of evaluation
>functions. And overmore I try to avoid so called chess expert knowledge to be
>implemented into my to be completed chess engine Smirf. Specific to "fair" chess
>battles see at [http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/schachfair_e.html].
>
>Regards, Reinhard.

Reinhard,

Thanks for your response and your GREAT site!  This will keep me busy for some
time.  I was under the impression that the CB engines knew the rules of FRC. I
now know they don't. Using the 15 FRC positions you provided that have the king
and rooks in classical chess positions so a non-FRC program can use normal
castling rules I see is only way to test them.  Interesting too are the free
Winboard engines that know the FRC rules.  Thanks again.

Chris



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