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SMIRFBROKEN LINK!. Program that plays various 8x10 chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Abdul-Rahman Sibahi wrote on Fri, Aug 25, 2006 12:14 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Hi,

I have a suggestion for a variant to be added,

If SMIRF was able to play Alice Chess it would probably be the only program
(besides Zillions of Games) to play the variant. There isn't even any
sites on the net to play it live.

There can be two options to show the board : either as two seperate board
besides each other, or both boards superimposed on each other, with board
B pieces up-side-down or something.

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Another thing:

I've noticed a problem with modern castling in the program. Whan I put a
random starting position in a 10x8 board with modern castling (I believe
it is called Orthodox Castling by Chess480 inventor, whatever ..) the king
on the file h or i can't castle with the rook on his right, and so is the
case on the a-side of the board. As I unserstand this castling, the king
should go to the corner square and the rook placed next to him.

And I believe a 'free castling' option would make trying out variants
which don't exist (like Grotesque Chess) easier. The castling movement can
be notated like O-g for example if the king ended up on the g file, or O-h.


Thank you for reading,

Yours,
Sibahi