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H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Oct 30, 2010 10:02 PM UTC:
I succeeded in havng Fairy-Max play Spartan Chess, sort of. The only
problem left is promotion: Fairy-Max always promotes to the same piece,
which I set to Queen. So the Spartans can end up with a Queen. I don't
expect this to have any effect on play-testing for piece values, as Queen
and R+N are nearly equally strong, and a promotion is usually decisive with
either one of them.

If you (or anyone else) wold like to try: I prepared a pre-configured
WinBoard + Fairy-Max pakage, including a shortcit for playing Spartan. You
just have to unzip it in C:\Spartan (I guess C:\ actually as the Spartan
folder is already in the zip archive), and it should be ready to play. It
can be downloaded from:

http://hgm.nubati.net/Spartan.zip

A first impression is that the Spartans have the upper hand over FIDE, but
not overwhelmingly so. (I have seen draws, and sometimes FIDE even wins, at
40 moves/min.)

Btw, I don't understand why you would want to complicate the check notation. When only one King can be captured, you are simply not in check. Only duple check is check, in the sense that null-moving would now lose the game, and you have to evade.