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Subject: Re: Will Fruit support Chess960 in the future?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 15:06:33 08/21/05

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On August 21, 2005 at 14:01:00, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On August 21, 2005 at 08:39:51, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On August 21, 2005 at 07:23:11, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>
>>>On August 21, 2005 at 06:53:15, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>     ... my hope is that Fruit will not support FRC
>>>     (Chess960). I prefer a proper running classical
>>>     chess engine not becoming faulty because of some
>>>     unnecessary FRC-code -:)
>>>     Kurt
>>
>>Your assumption is incorrect, Shredder did NOT lose due to having incorporated
>>FRC-codes or FRC castling capability.
>
>       Who can be sure of that? To include unnecessary code in
>       a very complex chess program increases the possibility
>       that at some time strange things may happen. BTW, you
>       seem to have omitted my -:)
>       Kurt
>
>Take a look a spike, and Glaurung, they
>>both play great classical chess and Chess960. As a matter of fact, I believe
>>that after Spike has FRC support, it is much stronger than any previous
>>classical version, released before.
>
>      This has in my opinion nothing to do with the implementation
>      of FRC code. In future I would prefer to have the choice
>      between classical chess engine and FRC-engine.
>      Kurt
>>
>>Jorge


You still have that choice, if you chose to play a normal game you simply select
it from Shredder, or if you chose to play a Chess960 you can, and finally, you
also have a choice to select to play random Chess under Shredder GUI.

Jorge



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