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Hello Joe. I am quite happy with Rook=DW, Bishop=AF, Queen=FW, and the Knight compounds NDW and NDF. This makes for a nice collection of old-time pieces. Your preset looks like the mirror image of Variant 'C'. Please invite 'david_64' to play a game when you are ready. And add a Kibbitz Comment to your first move in the game with your final promotion rules: A1/B1/C2 look good. If the 'always can promote to General' option of Modern Shatranj is not being used, then you should state something similar to Rules 5 and 6 and 7 of Freeling's Grand Chess.
Hello David. As I do not have your email address, I'm offering you the invite this way. I have a non-rules-checking Great Shatranj test preset at: /play/pbm/play.php?game%3DGreat+Shatranj+Test%26settings%3Ddefault What are your preferences for pieces and set-up? The current setup guards all the pawns, which people seem to think is important. I would prefer we don't use the historic fers, wazir, alfil, or dabbabah, or the not-yet official zigzag general, but it's up to you. My e-add for a little longer is joejoyce at sprynet dot com. I will be dropping it in a couple weeks as I've switched providers. Pity, it never got spammed, not even once.
david_64-mageofmaple-2004-337-027 was my first game of Pairwise Drop Chess, where I simply hacked the Capablanca Chess Preset and added my new rules as Kibbitz Comments. This was a 'private preset' - I never got around to putting up a finished public model. Any variant with (modern) Elephants and War Machines sounds good to me. As for the 1or2 square War Machine, I suspect that even a nonjumping Mogyu (Violent Ox) from Dai Shogi can force mate - the trick is actually herding the lone King into a corner. Another note: the Hiryu (Flying Dragon) is a nonjumping 1or2 square Elephant. No need to rush your moves in our games - I know that you and Gary have a tournament to finish.
Hello, David. I would be happy to swap games with you. I'd love to try an 8x10 shatranj game. It will probably take me a few days to get a skeleton GC preset together, non-rules-enforcing so we have the choice of specific pieces*. Never played Makruk, or any of your variants, so whatever you want is fine with me. Ten moves a week is at the upper limit of my practical ability, but five per is a good number. Looking forward to it. Sufficient mating force: the pieces I'm inclined to use in our game of 'great shatranj' (an awkward name for an 8x10 size) are the 1-step slide, 2-step jump pieces, like the Modern (Shatranj) Elephant. The dabbabah-wazir ('dababba') steps one or jumps two orthogonally. Clearly, the 2-step dababba-rider Gary Gifford and I are using in the Grand Shatranj test game can, with the king, checkmate a bare king, having a move of 1, 2, 3, or 4 squares. But the Modern Dababba moves only 1 or 2 squares. Can king and dababba checkmate lone king? *great rationalization for my being unable to do anything more than gut a pre-existing preset.
ATTENTION Gifford, Joyce, and other interested parties: How about playing some of our Shatranj - Makruk - Whatever variants? I guess the inventor of the game should take Black (move second). Gary, you could issue an invitation to me (david_64) for a game of Shatranj Darwinian. Joe, do you want to try something on the 8x10 board? If you are not yet ready to put 'Shatranj Capablanca' up for PBM, feel free to add a Comment here suggesting something else. I am usually good for at least 10 moves per week in a game. I may not have my own variant prepared for Game Courier until, say, December 30. NOTE: the Rook is 'sufficient mating force' when the only other pieces on the board are Kings. I am inclined to believe that any two DIFFERENT PIECES from the following list can force mate (most of the time, provided the board is not too big, also provided you are not using the 'wrong elephant' on a 9x9 board). The list: [1] Modern Elephant on a light square, [2] Modern Elephant on a dark square, [3] Knight, [4] Cannon.
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