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Subject: Re: Is Suffle Chess Better Than FRC For Testing Engines?

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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