Royalbee 10x8 variant released

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Royalbee 10x8 variant released

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Get started playing royalbee, a circa 2017-2018 chess project. Should work on first try using Winboard 4.9.1 with Sjaak. There is no more need for 4.8.0 and 4.6.2 for now. The piece values are inside the 'Programming' thread (using the mobility tables explained). Ed Trice also decided to give away Gothic Vortex for free. I received a copy, thanks. :lol:

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# Royal Blessings #
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Variant: royalbee (10x8)
Board: 10x8
FEN: "rnbqukvbnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBQUKVBNR w KQkq - 0 1"
XBoard pieces: "PNBRQ............V..UKpnbrq............v..uk" (the recommended Piece to CharTable)
2nd XBoard pieces: PNBRQ............V..UKpnbrq............v..uk" (alternate piece layout)
XBoard parent: "fairy" or "capablanca"
FEN (with Prince/Queen swapping places) "rnbvukqbnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBVUKQBNR w KQkq - 0 1"
Princess (U) is often confused with Unicorn or horse shoe. That's because it looks like Xena/Zelda riding her horse during combat. Prince (V)ulture is from Prince of Persia and 96 (his value magically rises above 80 the max number of squares) combats the dreaded Chancellor (72) or Vizier. Rook Knight has no diagonals so gets reduced because of that. Only Queen (80) Prince Princess is in royalb

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86	114 Central Activity 
114	128 Mobility
96	113 King Safety
128	114 Passed Pawns
128	108 Pawn Weakness

"Kudos for testing this -6 Atk Chessmaster personality. Roya!bee 10x8 Princess & Prince was a success."