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Too bad that this GC has no rules enforced
As Hannibal chess, this game also has a interactive diagram. That should make a GC preset easily. I see waffle chess is more complicated. It seems I really hate the fast castling in that game. That could be the reason why the interactive diagram is not done. But I digress as I see a lot of similarities between these 3 games. Anyway I could do it pretty quickly I guess if you cannot find the time.
@Aurelian: yes I was the author of the GC for Hannibal Chess. You can do it for Frog Chess and more if you like and can. It would be great.
As immediate task, I want to help the author of Timuride making ID and GC for his games.
Hi Aurelian and Jean-Louis.
The only rules enforcing programming I ever did was for my Throne Chess (a modification of FIDE Chess) - I had Fergus' help, and I found it tricky after decades of not doing any programming in any language.
Aurelian's existing unofficial preset/settings file for Frog Chess (Regular Castling version) seems to work based on the few games he played with it, except there seems to be (or were?) bug(s) for detection of checkmate when a frog is involved; just check was announced in one case I saw. Maybe an extra condition for seeing if a king would walk into or be under a frog attack would be fix(s), I'm not sure, even after looking at Aurelian's preset/file in Edit mode, trying to guess the possible bug(s).
H. G. Muller wrote on Mon, Oct 30, 2023 09:34 PM UTC in reply to Kevin Pacey from 08:33 PM:Since the Frog Chess page has already been equiped with an Interactive Diagram, all you would have to do is to copy-paste the definition of that Diagram into the Play-Test Applet, press the 'GAME code' button, and copy the GAME code that appears into the preset. No programming of any kind would be involved...
Yes but the page is authored by Kevin. So if I modify the preset, I can't save it on the dedicated page. Am I wrong?
@HG, My thoughts exactly! And I think jean-louis is correct. I cannot edit someone else's article!
H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Oct 31, 2023 07:39 AM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from Mon Oct 30 10:14 PM:Yes but the page is authored by Kevin. So if I modify the preset, I can't save it on the dedicated page. Am I wrong?
That is entirely correct, but I was responding to Kevin.
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Adding the frog on a Capablanca board is a very nice idea. I'd suggest adding an fil move to the knight's first move, preferably a just move power, so that it can occupy it's regular place in the orthodox chess repertoire. But I don't see this as a problem more as a small enhancement, maybe, also motivated by the fact that the knight in this game starts so far from the center. Overall an excellent game!