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Bughouse chess #229

Closed Kakadu closed 9 years ago

Kakadu commented 9 years ago

@ornicar, you have said that implementing bughouse chess can be defficult. Can you make short notes why, please?

ornicar commented 9 years ago

Replay cannot be encoded in standard PGN, it needs new UI elements, coordination between 2 games. Overall I have the gut feeling it's very hard to do.

ConnorJC3 commented 9 years ago

Bughouse chess can be encoded in BPGN (Bughouse Chess Portable Game Notation), an extension to PGN, however. Maybe this could be explored?

See http://bughousedb.com/Lieven_BPGN_Standard.txt for the standard.

I know that it would be difficult, but it would be so fun! Please, at least consider adding this.

ghost commented 9 years ago

This issue (and the info in it) has now been triaged into #441.