Chess variants and Zillions of games

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Philippe

Chess variants and Zillions of games

Post by Philippe »

I have modified Petty Chess from the file Chess,_Small.zrf to make a new variant. I also made a new bitmap board.
The chessboard has 5 files and 7 ranks, 35 cells. Initial position :
A1 Rook B1 Queen C1 King D1 Knight E1 Bishop.
5 Pawns from A2 to E2.
Symetric position for Black.
Special Rules : no prise en passant. Castling (after) King on B1(7) Rook on C1(7).
A player who is stalemated loses.
It was not so easy to change the castling rules, verify the permissions.

This variant seems drawish. If one takes no risks, it is easy to block the game with the pawns. On another side ZOG does not seem very clever to sacrifice to unlock a position. I will test further to check if it recognize 3 times the same position and the 50 moves rule.