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Reinhard Scharnagl wrote on Mon, Nov 29, 2004 08:18 PM UTC:

Greg, let me add some statements to the discussion here: it is essential,
like in FRC/Chess960, that the drawing of the to be played starting array
is done immediately before the game will begin. Thus possible weaknesses,
also because equally distributed on both sides, could not be used to
prepare a strategy based on unbalances. Avoiding uncovered pawns only will
exclude obviously weak points and have the players focus on a good
positional and creative play.

The FEN notation is subject to be improved. There seem to be some
incompatibilities using '0' for ten empty squares compared to a FFEN
approach. Thus I am thinking to not encode any empty squares finishing a
line (for 10x8 boards only). It seems as if that would cause less
problems.

There is already a homepage of CRC / FRC and more, see
http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/schachcrc_e.html and a lot pages around.

My book on Fischer Random Chess is available in German language only. And
because it is not a bestseller (9 copies have been sold in quarter 3 2004)
I doubt whether a translation into English would pay.

Reinhard Scharnagl