Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 11:03:59 09/22/05
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On September 22, 2005 at 13:37:07, Joshua Shriver wrote: >How do you play FRC with xboard? > >I have a couple FRC engines, but from the readme files it seems you can only >play the variant mode while on a ICS. If this is really so, then is there a >small ICS server w/ source for Linux? > >Seems like a lot just to be able to play FRC. Fortunately, there is an easier way. There are two different FRC enabled versions of XBoard, one by Anastasios Milikas and one by Fabien Letouzey and myself. Download links: http://www.milix.net/aice (click on "downloads") http://www.glaurungchess.com/xboard-960.tar.bz2 XBoard-FRC (Anastasios's program) is perhaps a bit more user-friendly, because it includes a menu item for choosing one of the 960 different startup positions. With XBoard-960 (Fabien's and mine program), you must either set up the position manually or load it at startup with the '-lpf' and '-lpi' parameters (you will need a file with all the 960 FRC positions in FEN format). If you want to run an UCI FRC engine (like Homer, Glaurung or the upcoming Fruit WCCC) you will also need the most recent PolyGlot beta (1.4 beta 2). Older PolyGlot versions do not support FRC. The source code for PolyGlot 1.4 beta 2 can be found here: http://www.glaurungchess.com/polyglot_14_b2.tar.gz Using XBoard-FRC or XBoard-960, I have been able to play FRC with AICE, The Baron, Fruit, Glaurung, Gothmog, Homer and Jonny (but please not that the FRC versions of Baron and Fruit are not yet publicly available). Tord
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