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H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Mar 1, 2020 04:51 AM EST:

Well, for one the spaces are missing behind the # and & in the piece-descriptions for WinBoard, which probably leads to WinBoard ignoring them altogether. Which is just as well, as HH and WH are not the Betza notations for the moves of the Hannibal and Waffle: you defined the Hannibal for WinBoard as a Trebuchet-rider. But for Fairy-Max you defined it as a Modern Elephant, which has no moves in common. But even when ignoring the piece definitions, WinBoard will revert to the default move of the piece, which for the Elephant that you use in all cases will be the Alfil move.

The F moves of the Hannibal and the W moves of the Waffle will then be rejected by WinBoard as illegal, when Fairy-Max plays them. And Fairy-Max can recognize checkmates where WinBoard still sees a possibility for the King to escape, to a square that the Hannibal or Waffle attack without WinBoard being aware of it. And then WinBoard would judge the mate claim by Fairy-Max illegal.

 


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