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Chess variants (10x8)

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25. November 2004, 21:38:58

SMIRF Engine

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Subject: Smirf and Janus Chess

Hi Caissus,

I had been in connection with some Janus relevant german people, whether to enable Smirf to also play Janus Chess, but the reaction has been very negative.

To enable Janus Chess for playing will mean to extend the understanding of FEN strings targeting to also support the different symmetrically castlings.

I do not know whether there has been already proposals in that direction, but I would suggest to simply add a preceeding "s" before the castling block of a FEN string. With that it would be able to send an information to the engine to generate symmetrical castlings instead of the standard assymmetric castlings. (This would also give new possibilities to 8x8 chess.)

How do you think about that problem / suggestion?

Reinhard.