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Subject: Re: The Chess960 World Champion is catching up to Shredder Classic 1.3

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:51:37 08/18/05

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On August 18, 2005 at 06:29:58, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On August 17, 2005 at 22:24:02, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On August 17, 2005 at 21:55:58, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>
>>[Event "25 Minutes/Game + 5 Seconds/Move"]
>>[Site "Engine Match"]
>>[Date "2005.08.17"]
>>\>[Round "21"]
>>[White "Shredder Classic 1.3"]
>>[Black "Spike 1.0 Mainz"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>[SetUp "1"]
>>[FEN "bbqnnrkr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BBQNNRKR w - -"]
>>
>>The FEN proves that is not chess960 because in chess960 there are castling
>>rights.
>>
>>Uri
>
>I am using the Shredder Classic 1.3 GUI , and Shredder plays Chess960 in its own
>way with the correct FEN XFEN or not.
>
>PS: More than half of the programs at the Chess960 WCCC used the Shredder GUI
>too.
>
>Jorge

I see no castling in the games that you posted so it is not chess960 but
chess_no_castle game and programs do not need to support chess960 to play that
game.

Uri



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