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Jose Carrillo wrote on Thu, Apr 7, 2016 11:20 AM UTC:

Fergus,

Another one. I accepted Carlos Cetina's invitation to the Fischer Random
Chess game below, and as soon as the random position was set, I lost the
game, without even playing my first move.

http://play.chessvariants.com/pbm/play.php?game=Fischer+Random+Chess&log=sissa-cvgameroom-2016-89-680

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Apr 7, 2016 01:58 PM UTC:

The same thing didn't happen this time. This log has no time controls in
it, and it doesn't even list a winner or set the value of status. So it
looks like the problem is with the logic of how Fischer Random Chess
determines the winner.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Apr 7, 2016 02:21 PM UTC:

Because the code is based on code highly optimized for Chess, and the Rook
at h1 was the last piece to move into place when it randomized the pieces,
and the King was beside it, it thought the Rook at h1 was checking the
King. I fixed that by setting dest to null at the end of the Pre-Game code.

Jose Carrillo wrote on Fri, Apr 8, 2016 01:49 AM UTC:

Thanks Fergus.

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