Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 22:24:39 06/04/01
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On June 04, 2001 at 23:43:59, Pete Galati wrote: >On June 04, 2001 at 19:00:00, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: > >>Hi there, >> >>Sunsetter is a program that plays bughouse and crazyhouse chess (wild 23). I run >>it on Fics via Winboard or you can play against it offline using the ZChallenger >>Interface ( which allows you to play against Sjeng too, the variant master :) ) >> >>http://www.d2d4.de/sunsetter.asp > >For those of us who don't know, what is the ZChallenger Interface? I never >heard of that. > >Pete You can try it out from http://www.d2d4.de/download/zchall-sfx.exe :) 1.4 MB It is a program like winboard but specially for the crazyhouse/w23 chess variant. It allows local play against a program or a matchup between 2 programs. Regards, Georg v. Zimmermann From Help Crazyhouse on Fics: crazyhouse Crazyhouse is a variant of chess similar to bughouse, except that it is played between only two players, on one board. The special feature of the game is that when you capture a piece, you receive a piece of the same kind, but of your color. Rules for piece 'drops' are the same as in bughouse, i.e. any piece may be dropped on any open square with the expection that pawns may not be dropped on the 1st or 8th rank. A special move notation is needed to drop one of your held pieces onto the board. The notation for making a drop is "P@fr", where P is a piece you are holding [PNBRQ] and "fr" is the empty destination square. Example: "n@f5" would drop a knight on square f5. For checkmate to occur, there must be no possibility of avoiding checkmate by a drop interposition. This means either the opponent is not holding any pieces, or in the case of check along the 1st or 8th rank by a queen or rook, he holds no pieces other than pawns. It is also possible Special Notes: (b) Pieces that had been promoted revert to pawns when captured. (e) Crazyhouse games are denoted in 'games' and 'history' listings by "z"
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