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Hey! New month started!

Oh, right. I was focused on updating the color schemes. I should exercise now, but I'll remember to do this soon.

Hey! New month started!

I second Chak.

I notice that Lev nominated Seireigi, so in addition to my nomination of its larger cousin (Dai Seireigi) I'll throw in a second for Seireigi for future features.

You must really like Dai Seireigi...I'm honestly quite surprised. Sure, I consider the Seireigi family my best set of works so far, but I didn't think anyone would be so quick to nominate Dai Seireigi. If anything, I thought Chu Seireigi would be nominated faster (second to normal Seireigi of course). That being said, I can definitely see the appeal, with the homages to the large historical Shogi variants and all.

Note to (other) Editors: While Dai Seireigi hasn't been played in its current, final form on Game Courier yet, it does have a recorded history of development versions being played on Game Courier. Whether this would make it eligible to be featured is up for debate.

I second Glinski's Hexagonal Chess. It is the textbook example of a hexagonal chess variant. If you want to learn how to play a hexagonal chess game, Glinski's Hexagonal Chess is a great place to start.

N-Relay Chess & Sort of Almost Chess.

Please use full names and links when nominating games, and please name every game you nominate within your comment so that nominations can be properly documented.

I second NRC & SoAC and nominate every variant I favorited that are qualified except of course my own variants which I shamelessly favorited.

I notice that Lev nominated Seireigi, so in addition to my nomination of its larger cousin (Dai Seireigi) I'll throw in a second for Seireigi for future features.

Grant Acedrex is now the featured variant for April, 2024.

I'll nominate Ajax Chess.

I second Elk Chess.

But, I think that for next month Grant Acedrex has an advance.

And for future months, I nominate Hexagonal (Glinski) chess.

Though it probably won't get seconded in time for April, I think Dai Seireigi is worthy.

Does anyone want to nominate or second any more games before the month is finished?

Okay, I fixed that.

Hi Daniel

Unrelated, I have issued you a personal invitation for a rules enforced 12x12 game of mine (Brawl Chess) that's been not much tested, and not played yet, in case you might have missed it, and wish to play.

Just noticed, the Recognized Variants of the Month table does not work with the dark theme.

Symmetric Chess is the featured Chess variant for March, 2024.

I want to second Atomic Chess

@Fergus: I have also seconded Symmetric Chess.

I have updated the text of this page to make it clearer that Game Courier and Zillions-of-Games are being offered as the easiest options, and not as the only options, for meeting some of the requirements.

You need to specify more than just a FEN, and youcan specify moves. And they are certainly less capable than ZoG. But I think they would not have much difficulty implementing the variants that we typically feature hee. (I could be wrong, though, as I haven't configured them for any games either; just looked at how the config file for some of the preconfigured games looks.

But there is room for a serious engine that is as versatile as the Interactive Diagram, and as easily configurable. In fact, the Play-Test Applet could be used as a front-end for compiling the XBetza, and producing a move table similar to the one it already produces as GAME code. Which you could then copy into a config file with the name of the variant for use by the engine. (In fact it would be rather trivial to make the negine directly read the GAME code that now goes into the Pre-Game section from such a file; it is little more than a large sequence of numbers separated by whitespace.)

The hardest part would be to equip it with a sufficiently powerful user interface.

I have no familiarity with Nebiyu or Sjaak II. If all you do for these is specify a FEN, they are much less capable than Zillions-of-Games. Zillions-of-Games is very easy to program for new games, as the work of programming a game engine has already been done by the developers, and all that's left for someone wanting to program his own game is to specify the setup, how pieces move, and any additional rules. This is why we have close to 1000 Chess variants programmed for Zillions-of-Games here, and the Zillions-of-Games website has many more games we don't have here.

Through all this, I'm still hoping to figure out what not-for-pay software would be best suited for Short Sliders (and the Leapers Who Love Them). (Preferably but not necessarilyialso able to handle some of my 3D games.)