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Microxiang. The principles of Microshogi applied to Xiang Qi. (4x6, Cells: 24) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝John Smith wrote on Fri, Dec 26, 2008 08:46 AM UTC:

I do not, though I did before the death of my great Computron 4000. I would not like to have Zillions again for it distracts too much from possibly great ideas with its limitations and I'm not the best programmer. Possibly you or my main, tongue in cheek, programmer, Zzo38 A. Black, could program and playtest it for me. I am a bit fond of the pieces demoting upon capturing, as in Fergus Duniho's Metamorph Chess. From my experience, I would say that it would be very easily programmed, but not easily very well programmed, with proper piece values, which people like Mats Winther have tweaked in the prepackaged games to provide stronger play. Any thoughts on values? You may have seen that the Elephant, the weakest piece in Xiang Qi, is paired with the Chariot, the strongest piece in Xiang Qi, just by using Microshogi analogues. In fact, all pieces take their complement in value, with a bit of salt, as their alternate form. This seems a game that relies heavily on position rather than material, like some sort of Hyperxiang.