Chess960

[pedrox]

Chess960 has 960 positions to start and the majority of the engines will not have openings books for 959 positions.

So in the event that the starting position is repeat engines theoretically play the same game.

The engines do something to prevent this?

Best,

Pedro

[hgm]

As my engines do not use books, and their inherent randomness is often not large enough to deviate from a previous game before the outcome is decided, I made sure there is a random component.

I just add a random number in the range -10 to 10 centiPawn, derived from the starting time of the game, to each evaluation.

[pedrox]

Anyone know if an engine with protocol xboard can play chess960 in the shredder GUI?

Best,

Pedro