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Presets now use the East-West piece set group so you can now switch between Alfaerie, Abstract, and Cazaux graphics. The three different options presented only affect the default appearance - each player may still select the desired piece graphics. This also now uses the new fairychess include file.
No, the picture has also been corrected. The old PNG still appears in your browser and mine because of a cache problem, but if you look with another browser, the two black bishops now stand on squares of different colors.
Though it has been corrected in the preset itself, it is still awry in the picture for the preset. This may have led to a bit of confusion, I believe.
As pointed out on the Shako page, there is a mistake in this preset. A black Bishop is exchanged with a black Knight. Can anyone correct this ? It is very important that Shako contains the exact orthodox arrangement in its internal structure. Thanks
Information: Shako means Chess in Esperanto. Correction: When I mentioned Loblan, it could be interpreted as Lojban on Loglan. Both are in the same line of logical languages. Question: How can I say Chess (generic) in Klingon?. It should be a good name for a variant, but I´m not speaking about Klin Zha. Words is Klingon are not very aesthetic for hear, but it does not matter a lot to Klingons, I suppose.
Shako is as Esperanto, a very good idea that only a few people have appreciated well. Game play is interesting, it preserves much of FIDE-Chess flavor, but it adds good emotions with the Cannons and Elephants, making the game deeper than FIDE-Chess, but not much more. I only disagree a bit with the initial setup, particularily with the Elephants, I prefer more centered initial positions for these pieces, but it is only a personal opinion, and I have not strong arguments against the selected setup. Observation: I have not learned formally Esperanto, but I have read some things about it during a pair of weeks in the past, enough to be convinced that it is very easy to learn; nevertheless, I think that Artificial Languages like Esperanto, Loblan, Klingon and some other good ideas have little chance to have great success in this actual world, there are many interests against it.
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Looks great