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As a lover of chess variants myself, I greatly enjoyed this paper. The selection of variants is not exactly the one I would have made, but they do all have the advantage of being playable with a normal chess set: No fairy pieces or differently shaped boards are required. My favorite of those varian...

Years ago Tord Romstad suggested to create a PGN replacement format in https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments ... gn_format/
Does anyone know was it evolved to something concrete?

May I ask mods to move this to other forum, please? It is related to COMPUTER chess because it's the first time in history where such a tournament happens online and people had to use COMPUTERS to connect to a server and play each other. This had no precedent as before you'd attend the events in pe...

There is a tendency that some people intentionally(?) post in wrong forum to gain some attention. This one for example has nothing to do with computer chess/software at all. May I ask mods to move this to other forum, please? Thx! p.s. I hate avoiding posts I'm not interested at all when I come here...

You can play no castle chess with your friends or with AI on lichess.org
https://lichess.org/editor/rnbqkbnr/ppp ... _w_-_-_0_1
Use the "CONTINUE FROM HERE" button.

In "uci_options" section you can add any additional UCI option you like.
config.yml.default is just a skeleton example config file to provide something users can start with.

You can see some nice tactics in my latest losing S-Chess game https://www.pychess.org/VrQEOa23

See zinc viewtopic.php?f=7&t=60504&hilit=zinc

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What silly rule is that? It defies all logic. I propose to drop that rule.
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+1

I have fixed all bugs including pinned pieces and promotions and now it matches all your perfts. I still don't like the pinned piece logic though -- it means gating is not really uncovering a piece. Also since I allow king captures (and do not check legality of move beforehand) in, pinning was a bi...