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Fairy-Max: an AI for playing user-defined Chess variants. A chess engine configurable for playing a wide variety of chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Jun 20, 2021 09:23 PM UTC in reply to Aurelian Florea from 08:20 PM:

I think even pretty old WinBoard versions should understand that Betza string. (But I did not actually try it). Just to be sure, use the version at http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-AA.zip .

The Fairy-Max in that package also has a more user-friendly way to specify bent sliders; you can specify each move also as a triple s1,r,s2 . Where s1 is the initial step (+/-32 or +/-2 for an Osprey), and s2 is the step after the bend (+/-15 or +/-17).  The middle parameter specifies the 'move rights' and should be 3 for a piece that slides and can both capture and non-capture.