FastChess, Chess960 & Stockfish...

[Steve Maughan]

Is it possible to play chess960 matches using FastChess and Stockfish? I'm using a Fischer-Random-Chess opening book from the Stockfish site:

https://github.com/official-stockfish/books

The chess960 books all encode castling rights in the "KkQq" format i.e. not the UCI format of the file of the rooks e.g. "AaHa". When I play games using the opening book file using FastChess I get a load of errors. What am I missing? How can I run FastChess matches against chess960 engines? Are there any tutorials?

- Steve

[Ferdy]

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./fastchess --help

In your command line add the variation option.

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-variant fischerandom

[Steve Maughan]

BOOM — it works!!

Thanks!