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Way of the Knight 
. Pieces with experience levels: a `role playing variant'.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Glenn (and everyone else),
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I finished up the zrf file last night. I increased the maximum number of kings from three to six (to handle any possible conceivable game), and have added one final variant (Cylinder Way of the Knight, which is a variant where people will choose the Way of the Bishop over 90% of the time because the cylinder bishop pieces are more powerful than the cylinder knight pieces).
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I tried creating Way of the Knight extinction chess, but there are limitations to the Zillions engine which make this a non-trivial modification.
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The final version is available <A href=http://www.samiam.org/chessvariants/wotn2final.zip>here</A>.
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As an aside, I need to ask Ralph about our open question about pieces which improve to rooks on a1/a8/h1/h8 and whether they can castlw with a King of the same color. I feel they shouldn't (and have set up the .zrf thusly); the piece in question has already moved.
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- Sam