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Devingt Chess. Decimal chess with 20 pieces per side including Sages (moving as Camels).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Apr 3, 2022 08:38 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 04:38 PM:

en-passant: a pawn on 7 should be able to take en-passant an opposed pawn that had moved 3 sq.

This is handled in the preset for Gross Chess. The Pawn functions and subroutines in the fairychess include file should handle it automatically if you set fps to 3.

promotion: only for captured pieces, a pawn on 9 cannot step on 10 if no piece is available.

The preset for Eurasian Chess can handle this. In the Pre-Move sections, it sets a value for wprom or bprom that is based on the currently captured pieces. Each variable should be set to the pieces that a Pawn may promote to. These variables are static for Chess but dynamic for Eurasian Chess. When it is empty, a Pawn may not move to the last rank. Here's what it looks like for Pre-Move 1 for White:

set wprom intersection keys capturedpieces array Q R B N C V;