Author: Pete Galati
Date: 09:35:01 08/27/99
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On August 27, 1999 at 11:01:21, Chris Taylor wrote: >Thanks Terry I have the Nunn Teast set! > >I am unsure as to the rules of setting up Fischer randoms? >Bishops on different colours, seems obvious? One could not have two white >squared bishops, as the daftness of this would be extreme! >Does black have to have the same line up as white? > >One thing I could do is put the two bishops on different colours and draw lots >for the other pieces.......That would be semi-random?? > >I would be grateful for any pointers, especially those in the right direction! > >Chris Taylor >Notts >England I had a whole big text file on it at one time but I'm sure I don't have at any more, yes black and white are mirrored across the board, Bishops on different colors, and one rule (according to Fischer I think but I may be wrong about this rule) is that the King is placed between the Rooks. I went and downloaded and tried the old Gromit that I mentioned since I brought it up I wanted to see it again, and Gromit 1.2 does not put the King between the Rooks, but I think that it might be a detail that Frank got wrong, maybe someone will speak up about that. I'm sure that if you did a Yahoo or Lycos type of search for Fischer Random that they'd point you to some sites with it outlined. There's also some Chess variation sites that have rules for all of the variations, sorry I don't have any links handy. I have generally found playing against a Fischer Random opening positions to be very difficult, a program addopts to it better than I do. An odd side note, that old Gromit 1.2 actually comes with a few old Edwards style engame tablebases! Pete Pete
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