Author: Tim Mann
Date: 16:07:52 04/19/99
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On April 09, 1999 at 15:20:29, Roger D Davis wrote: >Can anyone suggest some winboard engines that support shuffle chess or >Fischerrandom chess? WinBoard itself doesn't support FischeRandom chess yet. The "variant fischerandom" command to the engine is implemented, but WinBoard 4.0.2 doesn't understand FischeRandom castling and will garble castling moves going either to or from the engine. This should be fixed in a future version. Other forms of shuffle chess (where castling either is never allowed, or works as in ICS "wild 1") could be supported, but I don't know of any engines that actually support them. Then again, engine authors don't always keep me informed about what they're doing. An engine that supports normal chess and ignores the "variant" command from winboard will mostly play these forms of chess, but the engine will sometimes get confused about whether castling is possible or not, depending on which random starting position happens to have been chosen. Also, WinBoard's chess variant support currently works fully only in ICS mode. There is no way to select a variant when you're playing human vs. engine or engine vs. engine locally. --Tim
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