Hiracs 11.2 and Fischer Random
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Hiracs 11.2 and Fischer Random
What is the best thing to do with the opening book settings when playing FR with Hiracs? Is it better to use Tournament setting or turn off the opening book completely? If so, how do you turn it off? Are there official ratings of chess engines for use with FR or are they the same as the normal chess ratings?
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Re: Hiracs 11.2 and Fischer Random
Hi,Michael Mandrake wrote:What is the best thing to do with the opening book settings when playing FR with Hiracs? Is it better to use Tournament setting or turn off the opening book completely? If so, how do you turn it off? Are there official ratings of chess engines for use with FR or are they the same as the normal chess ratings?
You can leave the book turned on. One of the 960 positions is the normal start position. Yes there is a FRC rating list which is updated every week you can see this in our tournaments section:
http://www.hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=104
The list you want to see is:
http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404FRC/
My favourite GUI for FRC is the latest Shredder Native one.
I hope that helps,
Harvey.