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Betza notation (extended). The powerful XBetza extension to Betza's funny notation.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
A. M. DeWitt wrote on Fri, Dec 23, 2022 03:37 AM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Thu Nov 17 09:55 AM:

I have implemented k now such that in combination with c it disables capture of royals. (A combination that before was not different from plain c.)

Actually this means that k now can do what the t modifier (for 'tame') does in XBoard. Without using an extra letter!

That's fantastic. Brings Tenjiku Shogi one step closer to being implementable in an interactive diagram. The range jumping piece's moves (in this case the Bishop General) can now be written as B(paf)0ckB, where ck takes care of the restriction against capturing royals by jumping. The current BadZone function could easily handle the rest of  the rankings for the jumping Generals. Now just to figure out what to do for the burn...and how to specify options to accomodate how the burning move behaves. Once I have a way to do this, I can take care of the rest.