Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 01:50:34 01/09/04
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On January 09, 2004 at 04:21:36, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >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. Well, I found there has something to be added: the extended FEN string [http://www.rescon.de/Compu/fullchess5_e.html] might somehow be extended by enumerating available additional promotion piece types. Regards, Reinhard.
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