Comments by AndreasKauffman

Yes, now I noticed that color settings are stored per specific game type. I
think, it would be nice to have possibility to apply the color changes to
all game types (may be with an option to apply only to one game type as
now). By the way are there any reason to restrict the number of available
colors to 48? With more available colors it is easier to find a nicer
color scheme.

I also found a bug in Bird's Chess. ChessV castled out-of-check in
position after:

d2d4 f7f6 i1h3 g7g5 g2g3 g5g4 h3i1 h8g7 f2f3 i8h6 f3g4 h6g4 h1f3 e8g6 i1h3
d7d6 e2e4 c8d7 e1e2 e7e5 d4d5 f6f5 b1c3 h7h6 h3f2 g8j5 f3g2 j5i6 f2g4 i6g4
g2f3 g4f6 c1d2 g6f7 d1f2 j8g8 f1c1 f5e4 f3e4 j7j5 h2h3 b8a6 g1j4 a6c5 e4g2
i7i5 j4i3 f6i3 f2f7 d8f7 j2i3 g7f6 j1j5 g8g3 d1f1 c7c6 j5j8

ChessV played 0-0-0 here, despite King being in check by rook on j8.

On Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhi_Chal you read:

Buddhi Chal is a Himalayan variant of chess. The name means mind game in
Nepali, and is from the same root word as Buddha (the Pali word budh,
meaning, 'to know').

Does anybody heard about this chess variant?

Interesting and rich content, however there are something which can be
improved:
* images are missing in many articles (for example in
http://www.chess-dictionary-chesmayne.net/Chaturanga.htm)
* background sometimes make the text difficult to read (for example
background in red color)
* some articles use too much links, for example:
http://www.chess-dictionary-chesmayne.net/Shatranj.htm.

Please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polgar
'...In 2004 Judit took some time off from chess to give birth. She was
consequently considered inactive and not listed on the January 2005 FIDE
rating list, meaning that her sister Zsuzsa temporarily became the world
number one woman player. Judit is expected to return to chess at the Corus
chess tournament in January 2005.'

May be you find something interesting on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_chess or
http://history.chess.free.fr/variety.htm

Can we expect that Kasparov comes up with a new chess variant, like Fisher
did?

Another variation would be that the player, who reaches initial position
first, wins. The game can start e.g. with white King on a1 and black one
on h8 (or other postions to deversify the game). Then black starts with
undoing the last move. As 'uncapturing' of pieces is disadvantageous and
would never made otherwise, then it should be obligatory to 'uncapture',
if possible. So the game could start (black moves are shown before white
also in notation):

-1. kg8 (*Qh8) // black uncaptures white queen, undoing the last move
kg8xh8.
-1. ... Qf6 (*nh8) // white undoes Qf6xh8
-2. nf7 (*Rh8) Rh1 (*bh8)
-3. bg7 (*Rh8) Rh2 (*rh8)
. . . etc.

I need to think something more about uncapturing of pawns, but may be no
restriction should be made here, so that if e.g. white leaved with doubled
pawn and all black pieces already on the board, then white can't win
anymore. If black in the same situation, then it is a draw. 

There should be probably a rule for uncapture of bishops to forbid that
two bishops e.g. on light squares are produced.

Are there a ZRF on this game? Does anybody already tried out how strong
plays software sold on http://www.chaturanga.com ? From screenshot is
looks quite professionally made.

Greg, this was not me who added a link to BrainKing.com. You can check this
by yourself, see history of the page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ChessV&action=history

In case of 'edit war' you should describe the situation on the
discussion page of the article and ask other editors for mediation. By the
way I just removed the link to BrainKing.com.