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Subject: Re: Chess960 castling test cases

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 10:45:23 04/21/05

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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 was interpreting the KQkg in the fen as KQkq. The assymmetry of the Black with
respect to the White Rooks should have been my clue that I had misread it.
Sorry.



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