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Aurelian Florea wrote on Sat, Feb 29, 2020 05:25 AM UTC:

@HG and Greg

I want to see three competitions between Fairy Max and ChessV using Winboard. The games should be Frog Chess, Hannibal chess and Waffle Chess.

1. What is the instruction that connects ChessV with winboard?

2. When I try to load FairyMax to play I get the message: "Engine did not send setup for nonstandard variant".

These are the fairymax representations of the 3 games, as I have written them:

//Frog chess invented by Kevin Pacey
Game: frog
10x8
6 4 5 8 7 3 8 5 4 6
6 4 5 8 7 3 8 5 4 6
p:100 -16,24 -16,6 -15,5 -17,5
p:100 16,24 16,6 15,5 17,5
k:-1 1,3034 -1,1034 1,7 16,7 15,7 17,7 -1,7 -16,7 -15,7 -17,7
n:310 14,7 31,7 33,7 18,7 -14,7 -31,7 -33,7 -18,7
b:350 15,3 17,3 -15,3 -17,3
R:475 1,3 16,3 -1,3 -16,3
Q:950 1,3 16,3 15,3 17,3 -1,3 -16,3 -15,3 -17,3
f:275 15,7 17,7 -15,7 -17,7 3,7 -3,7 48,7 -48,7

//Hannibal chess invented by Kevin Pacey
Game: hannibal
10x8
6 4 8 5 7 3 5 8 4 6
6 4 8 5 7 3 5 8 4 6
p:100 -16,24 -16,6 -15,5 -17,5
p:100 16,24 16,6 15,5 17,5
k:-1 1,3034 -1,1034 1,7 16,7 15,7 17,7 -1,7 -16,7 -15,7 -17,7
n:310 14,7 31,7 33,7 18,7 -14,7 -31,7 -33,7 -18,7
b:350 15,3 17,3 -15,3 -17,3
R:475 1,3 16,3 -1,3 -16,3
Q:950 1,3 16,3 15,3 17,3 -1,3 -16,3 -15,3 -17,3
h:275 15,7 17,7 -15,7 -17,7 30,7 34,7 -30,7 -34,7

//Waffle chess invented by Kevin Pacey
Game: waffle
10x8
6 8 4 5 7 3 5 4 8 6
6 8 4 5 7 3 5 4 8 6
p:100 -16,24 -16,6 -15,5 -17,5
p:100 16,24 16,6 15,5 17,5
k:-1 1,3034 -1,1034 1,7 16,7 15,7 17,7 -1,7 -16,7 -15,7 -17,7
n:310 14,7 31,7 33,7 18,7 -14,7 -31,7 -33,7 -18,7
b:350 15,3 17,3 -15,3 -17,3
R:475 1,3 16,3 -1,3 -16,3
Q:950 1,3 16,3 15,3 17,3 -1,3 -16,3 -15,3 -17,3
w:275 1,7 16,7 -1,7 -16,7 30,7 34,7 -30,7 -34,7


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