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Subject: Re: Chess960: Arena castle vs X-FEN castle

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 15:31:00 11/05/05

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On November 05, 2005 at 17:52:14, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On November 05, 2005 at 16:43:50, Matthias Gemuh wrote:
>
>>How can an engine support both Arena-FRC and X-FEN simultaneously ?
>
>The easiest thing to do is to simply implement SMK's official FRC
>extensions to the UCI protocol.  You can then run your engine directly
>in the Shredder GUI (of course), but it will also work in Arena and
>the two FRC-enabled XBoard/Winboard variants by using the latest
>PolyGlot beta.
>
>Tord



Hi Tord,
SMK-FRC-UCI, Arena-FRC-UCI and Arena-FRC-WB are already implemented
(no PolyGlot necessary).
Only thing keeping X-FEN out is ambiguity with Arena about detecting GUI.
Best,
Matthias.



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