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Fairy-Max: an AI for playing user-defined Chess variants. A chess engine configurable for playing a wide variety of chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Jun 10, 2021 05:20 PM UTC:

I had computer trouble, so I had no opportunity to check it out yet.

Fairy-Max does ignore game names that start with a capital. I forgot what was the reason for that (but originally there was one). But when you change the T to t the variant will appear in WinBoard's New Variant menu, from where you can select it. (If you did not put the definition too far down in the fmax.ini file; WinBoard can only display a limited number of engine-defined variants.

You did not specify what piece should be used for K/k in the pieceToChar string. Change it to

PNBRQ.EA.........G......MKpnbrq.ea.........g......mk