New Chess Variant that No One Will Like

[Mike Sherwin]

Why? Because no one ever likes my new variants.
Though it would be very simple to implement.
When a side castles another queen of same color is placed on either e1 or e8 as appropriate.

[towforce]

Castling is no longer optional and MUST be done ASAP.

Only one question that really matters to computer chess, though: would it hold back the "death by draw" issue that's killing the game for 5 years?

[Chessqueen]

Why? Because no one ever likes my new variants.
Though it would be very simple to implement.
When a side castles another queen of same color is placed on either e1 or e8 as appropriate.

It would be nice if you can create a Capablanca chess GUI

[hgm]

Why is that? There already are so many.

You can even play it here:


[diag]files=10
useMarkers=1
darkShade=#CF8948
lightShade=#FFCC9C
rimColor=#6080C0
coordColor=#CCCC11
firstRank=1
Pawn::::a2-j2
Knight:N:::b1,i1
Bishop::::d1,g1
Rook::::a1,j1
Archbishop::::c1
Chancellor::::h1
Queen::::e1
King::KisO3::f1
[/diag]

[Eelco de Groot]

Why? Because no one ever likes my new variants.
Though it would be very simple to implement.
When a side castles another queen of same color is placed on either e1 or e8 as appropriate.

It would be nice if you can create a Capablanca chess GUI

There is HGM's version of Winboard I believe:



Winboard is on http://hgm.nubati.net/


Reinhard Scharnagl:

https://www.chessprogramming.org/SMIRF


Some of the links on this page do not work anymore but more links from HGM himself, and Reinhard Scharnagl, Matthias Gemuh, both of whom passed away:

https://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/10x8.html


Evert Glebbeek's Sjaak chessprogram:

http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-index.html


ChessV:

https://www.chessprogramming.org/ChessV