Extended chess (XChess)

[Vinvin]

I never played it, and upto recently, WinBoard could not support it because the need for double-digit ranks. So there also are no engines.

My guess is it will be a slow game....

I agree, too slow because space between white and black is 12 squares ... 11, 10 or even 9 squares would be better ...

[Laskos]

I never played it, and upto recently, WinBoard could not support it because the need for double-digit ranks. So there also are no engines.

My guess is it will be a slow game....

I agree, too slow because space between white and black is 12 squares ... 11, 10 or even 9 squares would be better ...

Not only that, there are more pieces on the board too. It's roughly (14/8)^2 ~ 3 times longer game than the standard chess game. And not that much AI challenging game. Go (19x19) is a much more interesting game, did you see how it's played by weak players compared to strong ones? Weak players play it very tactically, strong players almost never fight pitched battles, tactically it's all clear locally to them with only several stones around.

Kai

[hgm]

I never played it, and upto recently, WinBoard could not support it because the need for double-digit ranks.

Why no hex digits 0..f for boards up to 16x16? Move strings could look like "fcde" but why not?

Sven

Two reasons:
1) Hex digits do not look natural to non-programmers at all.
2) It would destroy all hope of making a parser that would understand both SAN and Shogi notation (like 7g7f).

[gerold]

I like your idea and think it could produce some very interesting long range games. I don't know about the computer playing part.

Best,
Gerold.