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Well, it's not exactly on this site, but....
http://www.chessvariants.com/link2.dir/chessplusdeck.html

Hmmm, well I want to use 'Chess Plus' and the link is to 'Chess Plus
Dvorak.'  Not exactly the same, so I think I can still call --- Dibs! 
Seriously, though, the linked site is interesting and might make a fun
game for people who don't mind the element of chance in their chess.

If the goal is to avoid confusion, then you should be aware that 
Chess Plus is the name of an existing commercial four-player variant.
The author sells it at

http://www3.sympatico.ca/thejohnston/chess_plus.htm

If you're not concerned about avoiding confusion, then why bother with
calling dibs or anysuch?  Just look at how many superchesses there are.

Thanks for the info.  I am indeed concerned about avoiding confusion, and I
guess I retract my dibs (which I hope people realize was half-joking
anyway).  I'll try to think of something unique.

Meanwhile, I have written a ZRF for Mike Nelson's 'Capablanca-64' and
included an alternate array I'm calling 'Carrera-64'.  They both appear to
be very good games and a great way to incorporate the B+N and R+N onto the
standard chessboard.

Hey!  I rather like the Chess++ idea.  And it even fits my game concept
thematically.  Dibs again!  ;)  So here's a coding question for Peter or
the other top ZRF experts.  I'd like to set up a game where pieces are 'in
the queue' off the board behind specific pieces that start in the array. 
For example, let's say that a 'general' starts in the queue behind the
'cardinal.'  When the cardinal moves away from its array square, the
general appears there.  This only happens once, though, and additional
moves by the cardinal do not create more generals.  This idea might allow
me to incorporate unorthodox pieces on the standard chessboard without
clogging up the array and therefore bogging down the opening.  And who
wants clogging and bogging, anyway?  But I need to playtest it.  Any hints
on the best way to code this in Zillions?  I could probably come up with
something, but I have the feeling it would take me ten times as long to
reason it out as it will take Peter et.al.  Thanks!

Well, as usual with Zillions, there are a number of ways to do what you
want.  The approach I'd be inclined to try is use a first move attribute
for the piece, and on the first move use an add-copy instead of an add,
and then go back and do a change type on the starting square.

Here's a way to do it with a bit less overhead. Have two Bishop pieces and
call one an unmoved_Bishop. When the unmoved Bishop moves, change it to an
ordinary Bishop, and create another piece on its old space.