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H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Feb 2 05:09 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 04:53 PM:

You need to specify more than just a FEN, and youcan specify moves. And they are certainly less capable than ZoG. But I think they would not have much difficulty implementing the variants that we typically feature hee. (I could be wrong, though, as I haven't configured them for any games either; just looked at how the config file for some of the preconfigured games looks.

But there is room for a serious engine that is as versatile as the Interactive Diagram, and as easily configurable. In fact, the Play-Test Applet could be used as a front-end for compiling the XBetza, and producing a move table similar to the one it already produces as GAME code. Which you could then copy into a config file with the name of the variant for use by the engine. (In fact it would be rather trivial to make the negine directly read the GAME code that now goes into the Pre-Game section from such a file; it is little more than a large sequence of numbers separated by whitespace.)

The hardest part would be to equip it with a sufficiently powerful user interface.


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