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Modern Shatranj. A bridge between modern chess and the historic game of Shatranj. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Kevin Pacey wrote on Wed, Jan 25, 2017 09:14 PM UTC:

My own suggestion would be that for the diagrammed example, for Modern Shatranj, let the stalemate=win rule override the bare king consideration - the 'logic' being that the stalemated king will perish if the stalemated side attempts to move, whereas the bare king has freedom still. In any case, I don't know how Jose's rules enforcing preset for Modern Shatranj currently would handle the diagrammed example, after the final move is made. [edit: the preset's rules say a lone bare king is an Automatic Loss (if the other side's king isn't immediately bared), so I think I ought to take that at face value, even for the example situation I gave.]

P.S.: Alert again to CVP editors: I have an aging CVP submission awaiting review.