Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 01:21:36 01/09/04
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On January 09, 2004 at 02:51:45, Eran Karu wrote:
>It is first time I read your web-page about Gothic Vortex today. So I am
>wondering what you think about Omega Chess comparing to Gothic Vortex. What do
>you tell?
>
>For more info about Omega Chess, click the link below.
>
>http://www.omegachess.com/index.html
Hello Eran,
though the game design looks very sophisticated, I am not convinced of its
ability to be integrated in traditional chess context.
As far as I remember Capablanca already reduced the board size of his chess
variant from 10x10 to 10x8 because of bad experiences.
For follwing variants I thing an integration within a common GUI might be
possible: normal chess, shuffle chess, fischer random chess, janus chess,
capablanca's chess, capablanca random chess, gothic chess.
Therefore such a common protocol has to be established. My thoughts on that are
as follows:
a) base the protocol on UCI
b) always encode castlings as O-O / O-O-O
c) the engine has to signal its awarenesses to the GUI
c.1) being able to play at 10 rows or not (default)
c.2) being able to fischer castlings or not (default),
(where king or rook are unmoved but not
standing on typical positions, castlings
always will be performed analog to FRC,
which is compatible to Gotic or normal chess)
c.3) supported non standard figures:
c.3.1) "A" for Archbishop / Janus
c.3.2) "C" for Chancellor
d) Supporting an extended FEN encoding analog FRC-FEN,
where the first row decides the board size.
I is up to the GUI then, to start new games of matching variants,
where castling rights always are encoded via that special FEN,
and where is no need to additionally switch to special variants.
Regards, Reinhard.
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