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Jose Carrillo wrote on 2009-12-11 UTC
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💡📝Carlos Cetina wrote on 2009-12-10 UTC
Thank you very much. I'm ready for the tournament.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on 2009-12-10 UTC
The ability of Pawns to check is now fixed.

💡📝Carlos Cetina wrote on 2009-12-09 UTC
Pawns double step and promotion have been fixed.
The problem with the pawn checks is inherited from the Victorian Chess preset.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on 2009-12-09 UTC
For Pawns to promote, check the option 'Exclude Pieces not in Setup'. Doing this will create a variable that is used to indicate what pieces you can promote a Pawn to.

Curiously, Pawn checks were not being recognized in the moves I made to test this. I will look into this further.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on 2009-12-09 UTC
Since your Pawns start on different ranks than in Chess, you also need to set the variables wpr and bpr in the Pre-Game section, like so:

set bpr 8;
set wpr 3;

💡📝Carlos Cetina wrote on 2009-12-09 UTC
Fergus, 

Thanks for your help. Already have copied the Victorian Chess preset code into the Euchess preset. Everything is working well except two points:

1) Is not possible to make the pawn's sarting double move; it appears a message like this: 'You may not move a P from f3 to f5.'

2) Is not possible to promote pawns on the 10th rank. When one enter 'manually' the move, for example P f9-f10; Q-f10, it appears this message: 'You may not promote your Pawn to a Q.'

What can we do?

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