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One for each letter of the alphabet defined in the ini file. I suppose this a pretty niche use-case, but is this currently possible, and if not is it feasible?
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I noticed that rider/slider Betza notation seems only to work for knights.
`knight = n:N # this of course is a knight`
`customPiece1 = n:N0 # this defines a knight rider, which also works`
howeve…
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Currently only EPD is supported as output format, but it would also be useful to be able to generate books in PGN format.
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Hi, I came across a new type of piece that I think would be interesting to add and allow for many interesting variants. These are big pieces that take up more than 1 square, as in this game: https://g…
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The standard chess sequence can be written as WB/WB/WB... (the slashes separate alternating pairs of moves). "Balanced Alternation" proposes the following move sequence: After White’s (W) initial mov…
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i'm interested in chess and variants. i like particularly this one as i met with the inventor and he shared with me many of his ideas and choices. find it incredible.
how can i use this porgram t…
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Now that I have added 'janggi' as a standard variant to XBoard, the following points deserve attention:
- I am not sure that variants that only differ in determination of the game result deserve to…
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Is this available or planned to be available at a later point as of now?
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Place to discuss potential support for board sizes >12x10.
* Most likely needs to be based on 256 bitboards, i.e., up to 16x16 boards.
* Use non-magic method for move generation? Or split magics (as…
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It would be nice if it could be improved to load the endgame library file. Thank you for letting everyone use the engine. Thank you