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David Short wrote on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 10:42 PM UTC:
Well I intend to answer the question once and for all of which
is a better game, Doublechess or Doublewide chess, by having
zillions of games play it as a game of chess between different
armies. What is especially nice that I noticed is that when
I loaded up Doublechess on Zillions of Games and changed the
black position to what you see below, and did a test sample game
by selecting both white and black so that I could move the pieces
for both sides, I noticed that it did allow both kings to play
either O-O or O-O-O with the rooks on their sides of the board 
as you would imagine they could, while still also allowing white
to castle in the ways that the rules of Doublechess allow.
In Doublechess vs. Doublewide chess, white has an extra queen
but white also has the responsibility of capturing one of black's
kings first and then checkmating the other one to win the game,
whereas black only needs to checkmate white's lone king. I will
playtest several games and then later post the moves here.
Oh and obviously I will take the white side and let zillions 
play black. If anyone would like to volunteer to take the side
of the black pieces in an email game in the setup below
please contact me at [email protected] 



      a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h   i   j   k   l   m   n   o   p
    +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ 
  8 |*R*|*N*|*B*|*Q*|*K*|*B*|*N*|*R*|*R*|*N*|*B*|*Q*|*K*|*B*|*N*|*R*|  8
    +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ 
  7 |*P*|*P*|*P*|*P*|*P*|*P*|*P*|*P*|*P*|*P*|*P*|*P*|*P*|*P*|*P*|*P*|  7
    +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  6 |   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|  6
    +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  5 |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |  5
    +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  4 |   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|  4
    +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  3 |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |  3
    +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  2 | P |:P:| P |:P:| P |:P:| P |:P:| P |:P:| P |:P:| P |:P:| P |:P:|  2
    +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ 
  1 |:R:| N |:B:| Q |:R:| N |:B:| Q |:K:| B |:N:| R |:Q:| B |:N:| R |  1
    +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ 
      a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h   i   j   k   l   m   n   o   p

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