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Subject: Re: Random chess start up positions

Author: Chris Taylor

Date: 11:44:49 08/27/99

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On August 27, 1999 at 12:35:01, Pete Galati wrote:

>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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