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M Winther wrote on Wed, Apr 18, 2012 07:39 AM UTC:
I have now improved play considerably in my Burmese Chess by tweaking the pieces. http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/burmese.htm

However, it's not easy to acquire an exact description of the rules. There exist many versions, but not even the federations have published good documents. On this link, for instance, the rules are confusing.
http://myachess.blogspot.se/2012/01/how-to-play-myanmar-traditional-chess-3.html

According to c1 a pawn can promote upon reaching a promotion square. According to c3 it cannot promote but must wait. These are contradictory rules. I have implemented both in independent variants.

"c.1 When a pawn reaches one of the promotion squares, the diagonal squares of the opponent side, it can be exchanged for a general of the same colour provided the general of the same colour no longer exists on the board.

c.3 Even a pawn is qualified to be promoted, the promotion is not allowed at once just after reaching the promotion square. It can get the promotion on the next move or later of the same player."

It would be great if somebody could find an exact rule description and publish it here on the Chess Variant Pages.
/Mats

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