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Vanguard Chess. Game on 16x16 board, with 48 pieces per player. (16x16, Cells: 256) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Tue, Jul 4, 2023 03:41 PM UTC:

My test games since I added the Bowman have been pretty good, but I'm not sure I coded it right. I have it as NafcabN, and the illustration looks right, but it doesn't seem to behave that way in practice on the ID.

Other than that, there's only the matter of handling the royalty and (if possible) capture-promotion rules, and that part's good to go.

I'm also toying with the idea of replacing the outer remaining archers with alibabas, both for better variety and because I really love the image of an elephant with a turret. I'd probably want to add a W or F to the move so they're not limited to just 1/4 of the board, and of course the Archers would get one more space to their diagonal.

(Normally I'd code Archers as mF2caibN, but they're mF3caibN here because of the much-larger board. I'm talking about mF4caibN in exchange for reducing their numbers. I probably could also go with mF3caibNcaibZ, though I think that's probably a bit much.)