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Subject: Re: Chess960 and regular engines

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 10:01:29 08/17/05

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On August 17, 2005 at 11:00:46, Joshua Shriver wrote:

>Can any chess engine capable of using setboard() play by the rules of Chess960?
>
>For fun I have Fruit and Crafty playing a 500 game tournament using rbbkkwbr as
>the startup. Is this considered FRC?
>
>Or are there special rules that an engines has to know that's different from
>regular chess that would make regular engines unable to play FRC?
>
>Joshua Shriver

Why don't you download Glaurung Mainz and Spike 1.0 and also Arena 1.1 and have
a real FRC match.

PS: If the engine doesn't recognize the FRC castling it will stop playing or it
will report and ilegal move. Fruit will very soon be FRC too.

Jorge




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