Zied Haddad wrote on Tue, Mar 31, 2020 11:18 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
Hi, thank you for your comment.
Raphael mentioned his comment to me. Loving / Preferences are individual choices.
I have a clear conflict of interest here.
Is the fact that the recognised variants section wasn't updated from 2006 means that the administrators of chessvariants haven't found any new / recent variant worth to be added ?
Just to mention that recently, there was many things new concerning Musketeer Chess: Jocly website went down so your website, mine and HG Muller work are the only websites where it's possible to play this variant.
Many engine programmers become to have growing interest in it. The major one is for sure Stockfish that recently released Musketeer Stockfish. There are a total of 6 Programmers that already made engines for Musketeer Chess, which is not an easy variant to program due to the rules that concern the Piece selection and the "Gating Selection" = squares where the pieces will enter the game.
This growing interest is for sure for me a good thing. The majority of these programmers tried to play the game and loved it.
Have you an idea if there are other variants that are currently commercial ?
I runned tens of thousands of engine games and played myself hundreds.
My conclusions based on these tests are as follows: The game seems to be balanced as there are almost equal winning chances comparing black and white chances, and the draw percentage is low (less than 8%). Seirawan Chess that Inspired Musketeer Chess favors clearly White for example.
Thanks again for your comment: PS working on a wiki page and i mentioned your Game Courier in it. A really nice tool.
I hope also that Lichess will add it to their server.
Hi, thank you for your comment.
Raphael mentioned his comment to me. Loving / Preferences are individual choices.
I have a clear conflict of interest here.
Is the fact that the recognised variants section wasn't updated from 2006 means that the administrators of chessvariants haven't found any new / recent variant worth to be added ?
Just to mention that recently, there was many things new concerning Musketeer Chess: Jocly website went down so your website, mine and HG Muller work are the only websites where it's possible to play this variant.
Many engine programmers become to have growing interest in it. The major one is for sure Stockfish that recently released Musketeer Stockfish. There are a total of 6 Programmers that already made engines for Musketeer Chess, which is not an easy variant to program due to the rules that concern the Piece selection and the "Gating Selection" = squares where the pieces will enter the game.
This growing interest is for sure for me a good thing. The majority of these programmers tried to play the game and loved it.
Have you an idea if there are other variants that are currently commercial ?
I runned tens of thousands of engine games and played myself hundreds.
My conclusions based on these tests are as follows: The game seems to be balanced as there are almost equal winning chances comparing black and white chances, and the draw percentage is low (less than 8%). Seirawan Chess that Inspired Musketeer Chess favors clearly White for example.
Thanks again for your comment: PS working on a wiki page and i mentioned your Game Courier in it. A really nice tool.
I hope also that Lichess will add it to their server.