My 2005-03-30 Comment on the Shatranj page ended with: [Also every Shatranj related ZRF that I have tested will record a 'bare king victory' without giving a chance to make a final move resulting in a 'two bare kings draw'.]
While my Zillions Version 1.3.1e will not run Christine's Zillions (Version 2?) implementation of Modern Shatranj, I have examined the code and suspect that the same problem exists relating to the bare king victory rule. The good news is: Peter Aronson's ZRF for his variant Gothic Isles Chess uses a complicated coding to correctly handle the rule: 'Bare King counts as a win, provided that your King cannot be bared on the very next move.'
My 2005-03-30 Comment on the Shatranj page ended with: [Also every Shatranj related ZRF that I have tested will record a 'bare king victory' without giving a chance to make a final move resulting in a 'two bare kings draw'.]
While my Zillions Version 1.3.1e will not run Christine's Zillions (Version 2?) implementation of Modern Shatranj, I have examined the code and suspect that the same problem exists relating to the bare king victory rule. The good news is: Peter Aronson's ZRF for his variant Gothic Isles Chess uses a complicated coding to correctly handle the rule: 'Bare King counts as a win, provided that your King cannot be bared on the very next move.'