Zillions of Games file for Maxima

Notes

Copy the ZIF files to the same directory where the ZRF files are located. These ZIF files are text files called by the ZRF. In the main MAXIMA page, it is stablished that one of the winning conditions is to Checkmate the King, but in the original ZRF it was not implemented. It used the easier to implement Capture-The-King win condition. This ZRF, named MAXIMA_1.ZRF, modified from the original by Mr. de Brugh, implements the Checkmate condition and is really the correct ZRF for the game. These are the checkmate rules as implemented in this ZRF: - You can't leave your King in check. - If you threaten to invade the opponent's palace. Your opponent is automatically in check and must prevent you from invading his castle. - You may not put two pieces in your own palace (invade your own palace). You may only 'threaten' to invade your own palace if this would capture your opponent's king (see below). - Immobilized kings may not suicide. - If you bare your opponent's king, you automatically checkmate his king and win. - If any possible move is illegal because of these rules, you are stalemated. In the ZRF-file the game is drawn. And these are the rules when the two win condition 'interfere'. - You may invade your opponent's palace if you are in check. I could better say, your opponent may not check you if that move allows you to invade his palace. - You may invade your own palace to capture your opponent's king. Your opponent is not allowed to leave or put his king in check, even if capturing the king would result in an invasion of the own palace. - You may not invade your own palace to bare your opponent's king. These three rules are the same as in the ZRF-file with capture-the-king-condition.

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Download Instructions

The ZRF file and its accompanying graphics are bundled together in a .zip file. These will work with Zillions of Games, a Windows program that will let you play any puzzle or strategy board game you can feed it the rules and graphics for.

Instructions on downloading this Zillions file:

Download the .zip file
Using a program such as PeaZip or 7-Zip, extract the contents of the .zip file to your Zillions of Games folder
Be sure to keep the folder structure intact when you extract the files.

Maxima is a Zillions-of-Games file. It is categorized as: Two dimensional.

Author: Roberto Lavieri and Joost aan de Brugh. Inventor: Roberto Lavieri.

Comments

Maxima

. This ZRF enforces the checkmate condition in Maxima.

💡📝Roberto Lavieri wrote on Fri, Nov 12, 2004 01:04 PM EST:

Last comment is mine, don´t wait n hours to display.
Roberto

Anonymous wrote on Fri, Nov 12, 2004 01:02 PM EST:

The Maxima Page is going to be modified in the next future, adding the clarification rules for Check and Checkmate, as pointed out in the excellent work due to Joost Aan de Brug and his modified ZRF, in which the old ZRF´s capture-the-King condition is changed to the Checkmate win condition, and all possible conflicts are resolved in a logical way. Thanks again to Mr. de Brug.

💡📝Roberto Lavieri wrote on Fri, Nov 12, 2004 11:24 AM EST:

Very thanks to Joost Aan De Brug by the ZRF, and his interpretative analysis of how the game works with the Checkmate rule. I´m not going to rate this Item, because my name is in, but you did a very good job, friend. Sincerely, Roberto.