Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Chess960 castling test cases

Author: Michael Yee

Date: 08:22:50 04/21/05

Go up one level in this thread


On April 21, 2005 at 11:19:32, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

>On April 21, 2005 at 11:10:31, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>On April 21, 2005 at 08:32:59, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>[D]2b2krr/8/8/8/8/8/8/RB3KR1 w KQkg - 0 1
>>>
>>>[Event ""]
>>>[Site ""]
>>>[Date "2005.04.21"]
>>>[Time "14:16:50"]
>>>[Round ""]
>>>[White ""]
>>>[Black ""]
>>>[Result "*"]
>>>[SetUp "1"]
>>>[FEN "2b2krr/8/8/8/8/8/8/RB3KR1 w KQkg - 0 1"]
>>>
>>>{Chess960 castling tests} 1.Bg6 {no castling allowed} Bg4
>>>{only h-castling is allowed} 2.Bh7 {only h-castling is allowed}
>>>Bf5 {no castling allowed} 3.O-O-O {only a-castling is allowed}
>>>Bxh7 {no castling allowed} *
>>>
>>>Regards, Reinhard.
>
>>Chess960 requires the initial setup position to have the King between the 2
>>rooks. There are 56 such initial arrangements of king and rooks.
>
>Well, ok. I do not understand, what you are targeting. In this example one rook
>has been moved from a8 to h8. The other rooks and kings are still unmoved in the
>referenced FEN position, thus still having their castling rights.
>
>Reinhard.

I don't know what the comment was targeting, either. But for this particular
position, it turns out that the "g" in "KQkg" in the initial FEN isn't necessary
since you can infer it from White's castling rights (I think).

Michael



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.