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Grand Cavalier Chess. The decimal version of Cavalier Chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Dec 29, 2005 03:21 AM UTC:
Back when I created Grand Cavalier Chess, I misunderstood the rules of Grand Chess. I assumed that Pawns could not check a King without having something to promote to in Grand Chess, and I made Cavaliers analogous to how I understood Pawns in Grand Chess. So I programmed the ZRF with the rule that a Cavalier could not check on the last rank unless there was a piece it could promote to. The same misunderstanding affected my original rules for Eurasian Chess. But I revised the Pawn promotion rules of Eurasian Chess when I better understood Grand Chess. In the case of Grand Cavalier Chess, I programmed the Game Courier preset analogously to the rules of Grand Chess, whose preset I used as a model. So the ZRF is programmed one way, and the Game Courier preset is programmed another way. I'm in favor of changing the rules, as I already did with Eurasian Chess, to fall more in line with the rules of Grand Chess. In that case, I need to update the ZRF.