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Hi Nick,
well, there's an important difference between entering a move sequence or entering the resulting position, and this difference is castling rights!
Among all the hundreds engines in MessChess I only remember 1 or 2 which allow entering castling rights when entering a position, and so this option is not implemented in any plugin (for WinBoard or Arena).
IOW, from your FEN string (in WinBoard) only the following part is used in the plugin (and entered in the engine):
r1bq1b1r/ppp2kpp/2n5/3np3/2B5/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQK2R w
So it's just the engine's decision, whether it accepts (or makes itself) any castling depending on the positions of the king and rooks.
Regards,
Franz
Hi Franz
Thanks, so you think the problem is castling rights, which also adds the extra search time? (13 seconds to 31 seconds). Unfortunately, with FEN's there are loads of positions where castling remains an option. So, I guess I skip FEN's and just do the manual entry if I am testing games.
No complaints Mess ROMs work, it just would have been a time saver with my tests.
Are speed ups reliable will I get the same moves at 300% as I would at 100% or is that also inconclusive? I am looking for ways to shorten time without compromise.
Regards
Nick