Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 01:40:30 03/04/06
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On March 04, 2006 at 04:14:46, Swaminathan wrote: >On March 04, 2006 at 03:53:10, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: > >>On March 03, 2006 at 23:44:04, Swaminathan wrote: >> >>>... >>> >>>I wonder what exactly is wrong with shuffle chess? >> >>a) in shuffle chess the King could be placed at a corner in extreme, >>b) it is possible to have two Bishops placed on identical colored squares, >> moreover opposite to the both of the opponent, >>c) in shuffle chess there is no castling at all. >> >>Chess960 is far better and a superset to traditional chess. > >Thanks for all these vivid explainataion >But If chess960 has same number of positions as shuffle chess then that would >mean that FRC also has 2 bishops in identical squares. Chess960 has 960 different starting arrays. Shuffle Chess has 5040 (7!), but because of symmetry only 2520 in fact. Reinhard. >and ignore the king position and castling rules that many engine programmers >would have to implement some part of the code. > >Vast majority of engines support shuffle chess,so It would be a great idea to >test engines on shuffle chess. > >Does anyone have tests on shuffle chess? > >>Reinhard.
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