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Captain Spalding Chess ZIP file. Find an Elephant in your Pajamas.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Mike Nelson wrote on Sun, Aug 18, 2002 03:54 PM UTC:
I think this is a Zillions issue.  I ran a Zillions vs. itself game on my
machine (A four-year-old Celeron processor running Windows 98 SE) using
these settings: Expert stength, Moderate variety, 30 seconds think time. 
While Zillions doesn't play nearly as well as it plays FIDE chess, for
example, there were some good moves.  Black set up a combinatation to fork
White's Box and Pajama with the Great Elephant, then won by exchanging an
Elephant several times, able to get a replacement while White could not.
(Unfortunately, I didn't save the .zsg file.)

I'm not yet sure how to rate this game, but I think this may well be the
wierdest chess variant that still IS a chess variant.