Author: Marc Plum
Date: 17:29:21 03/09/99
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MChess Pro 7 plays "shuffle chess", essentially Fischer Random. When I tried to play through your game, it wouldn't go past the first move. I think that this must be because, as Mr. Uri already pointed out, the castling in that game was irregular. I'm haven't checked the rules for the ICC wild 22 version, but MChess uses the rule that castling is permitted only if the Kings happen to have started on the e file, and with a rook that happens to have started on the a or h file. The latest version of MChess is MCP8. According to the features list at ICD, it still has shuffle chess. I like MChess, but if you just want an opponent for playing Fischer Random, there is a decent freeware program called Gromit, which will play this and regular chess. Available at http://home.t-online.de/home/hobblefrank/index.htm I have downloaded Gromit, but haven't used it very often, and I don't recall which castling rule it uses for Fischer Random. BTW, ICC's wild 2 is a similar game, but castling is never allowed, regardless of where the king and rooks started. Marc Plum On March 09, 1999 at 14:37:20, Bruce Ramsey wrote: >Hi - pardon me if this has been asked before. > >I just tried out Fisher Random chess on the Internet Chess Club (ICC). At the >ICC, Fisher Random is known as Wild22. > >Afterwards, I tried loading the PGN from that sample game into Rebel 10b. Rebel >loaded it pretty good (no error messages, and position after one move by each >side correctly displayed in Rebel's database window). But the Load and Delete >buttons were disabled, so further work with that game didn't look possible with >Rebel 10. > >My question is: what chess programs, if any, do fully support Fisher Random >chess? (snipped)
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