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Subject: Re: xboard + FRC/Chess960

Author: Joshua Shriver

Date: 12:37:57 09/22/05

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I'm running xboard-frc now. I used xboard to setup the position, then saved the
FEN to a .fen file which I use via -lpf. But it still doesn't seem to let me
play the game. I've Glaurung and Baron and both seem to crack. Either they don't
move, or give a "varient not supported" error. Hrm...

Do you have to have the file with all fen's for 960? or can you just have a file
with 1 fen that you want to play? Maybe that's the problem as my 960.fen file
only contains 1 entry for the one I want to play.



>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).


This could be a problem too, I'm using an older version of polyglot, thanks!
I'll try this tonight and see if that fixes my problem.


>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


Any thoughts about forwarding a diff of the source tree to Tim Mann? Maybe he
can fuse it into the next official release of xboard/winboard.

Josh



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