Comments by j_carrillo_vii

Thanks for your comment Thomas.

As I said this was by no means an all inclusive list of processes for randomizing positions.

It was meant to have a stake in the ground on generating random positions for OTB games, and a place to comment on other methods, probabilities, etc. about random positions.

I agree with your comment on the same color Bishops.

The reason of some of my options is to keep the process simple with handy equipment.

Of course if everyone (like myself) carried a 10-sided dice around then matters would be a lot easier for randomizing.

But the fact is that a 6-sided dice and a couple coins are easier to find, so I setup simple procedure accordingly.

Remember these procedures are intended for OTB games.

How many random OTB games do you expect to play in one sitting? Not enough to matter.

The Excalibur program must have a bug. Castling is legal in that position.

Or you havenèt reset the castling flag or something like that on the Excalibur (I donèt own one, so I donèt know).

BTW, your Be3 moves are illegal in that sequence you provided, Bd3 is the correct move.

Your c1-Bishop (the one that actually can reach e3) is blocked by the d2-Queen.

My two new images can be used by chess variant creators however they want, if it makes sense according to the rules of their particular game.

The pieces I'm using in my Ajax variants just make logical sense as to the direction of their movement, but one must always remember the rules.

If I had to create new Ajax figurines, I couldn't play my Ajax variants OTB, which I do. I use a regular chess set, and elephants to represent the Ajax Ministers. Keep it simple!

My OTB opponents just know the rules, and know that the orthodox rook that they have always used in standard chess, in the Ajax games can move, but not take, one square diagonally.

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Last time I checked my new pieces hadn't been aded yet to the Alfaerie Many set. Who else besides Fergus can help me with this?

Thanks David.

I wasn't aware of White Elephant Chess or the Great Elephants.

I stand corrected I my evaluation of the strenght of the Silver Elephant.

I based my statement more on my short experience playing with the Silver Elephant and the Bishop on the same board, than empirically.

While the feeling from my short experience playing the Silver Elephant was that they were both similar in value.

Mathematically, these are my value estimates on a 10x10 board:

Bishop 3
Rook 10.5
Queen 16
Knight 5
Silver Elephant 4

What I was surpise to find out was that the Silver elephant was weaker to the Knight.

Yes, you can use the 'swap' command.

Look at the text at the bottom of the Korean Chess Preset page:

= = =

To swap Elephants and Horses at the beginning of the game, use the swap command. For example, this will swap Elephants and Horses on both sides for Red, then move an Elephant. Follow each swap command with a semicolon, and use coordinates for its arguments. Use it only before your first move.

swap b1 c1; swap g1 h1; E b1-d4

Korean Chess is Changgi.

Can a Korean speaker please translate 'Korean Random Chess'?

Thanks.

I just bought this same set today! at Korean Town, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

I bought it at a P.A.T. supermarket near Bloor St. West & Euclid St.

The pieces are sold separately from the board.

The plastic Changgi pieces are sold for $3.99 CAD, the board for $16.99 CAD featuring Changgi on one side and Baduk (Japanese Go) on the other.

The Go stones were $10.99 CAD for the (white and black) set.

The board and piece are all very good quality.

The web site on the outside of the box for the board: www.6brothers.com

Sam Trenholme: (on the Ajax Bishop)

>I really like the bishop + non-capturing Wazir piece; it nicely solves 
>all of the headaches one has coming up with a board setup for colorbound
>pieces. 
 
I like to keep things simple! ;-)