gaintpd
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4 years ago Hello notruck, the regional favor board for Makruk and Sittuyin is not a unimplementable feature. I am very curious about how you get the Xiangqi and Janggi board I painted in the process of implementation of them from cjssh1002. I think cjssh1002 do the right thing to tell you about it as the cutechess is open source project, which encourages everybody who love chess and/or the chess variant to get access to it.
I add an parameter to the Graphicsboard class that makes painting various board possible. As to the regional favor pieces, in fact there need some additional modification to the piece which is not central symmetric, the modification to these kind piece should be performed which make its displayed center be coincident to the square center.
Another problem is that if the different size of the piece which should be displayed the margin should be added to the original designed piece, if not the displayed pieces will be identical sized when displayed on the board as the auto-scaling feature to fit the square size of the current design. Just like the pieces displayed on the Janggi board, though it is designed in different size, but the auto scaling feature the cutechess owned makes it identical sized on the board, the modification should be performed to take into the autoscale feature.
From the above discussion, we can say that the pieces of Sittuyin will have very good display effect, it is almost identical to the board in the above picture. But the Makruk is not the case without the modification to the non center symmetric pieces.
As far as now, I am not skilled at graphics design, I did not have the ability to do the desired modification to the pieces that achieve the best display effect of Makruk.
I will paint the Makruk and Sittuyin regional favor board when I have time and open a pull request to the official repo to avoid the fragile development of cutechess.
notruck
Hi gaintpd! I learned from cjssh1002 about the new pieces to be displayed for Janggi and Xiangqi.
Similarly, will you please consider adding traditional boards/pieces for Makruk (Thai chess) and Sittuyin (Burmese chess) as well? Both variants are already supported in cutechess, and will only require cosmetic changes. They use non-checkered boards. The Sittuyin board also marks its long diagonals.
The above is the Makruk piece set developed by @fulmene, and released under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Coming from a Thai player/designer's original effort to lend a more authentic look to the pychess-variants website, the boards and pieces should be pretty authentic in shapes/size/color.
The Sittuyin set below is by @CouchTomato87, also made initially for the same website, and released under CC-BY-4.0. He based the design on diagrams from the official Burmese Sittuyin rules booklet, and they also look quite authentic.
Thank you!
Makruk2.svg by fulmene: https://github.com/gbtami/pychess-variants/blob/master/static/images/board/makruk2.svg
Sittuyin board by gbtami: https://github.com/gbtami/pychess-variants/blob/master/static/images/board/sittuyin.svg
CouchTomato's Sittuyin pieces in svg: https://github.com/gbtami/pychess-variants/tree/master/static/images/pieces/sittuyin/original
Fulmene's Makruk pieces in svg: https://github.com/gbtami/pychess-variants/tree/master/static/images/pieces/makruk/ada (This dir contains red pieces as well as the "flipped" wF/rF/bF graphics to represent promoted makruk pawns on the pychess website. The wP/bP are the regular pawns)