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H. G. Muller wrote on Mon, Feb 20, 2023 01:17 PM EST in reply to Gerd Degens from 01:02 PM:

Would it cost you a lot of effort to program the variant?

It probably would. Because, as you say, the rules are rather unusual. So it is not just a matter of using an existing program, and telling it how large the board is and how the pieces should move this time. Not having Pawns, or allowing captures only from a limited board zone is not so much of a problem. But having a neutral piece that can be moved by both players goes completely against the logic of any program I have. And that it is the royal piece makes this ever so much worse. So I would pretty much have to start from scratch.

To implement Duck Chess, which is also quite unusual (but in a completely different way) took me about 3 weeks. I considered that acceptable because it is a variant that already enjoys a large popularity on several chess servers. And because as a spin off it would also give me Blue Chip Chess and Refusal Chess, which are similar. But for a unique variant, that perhaps no one will ever play...


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