Greg Strong wrote on Wed, May 1, 2019 06:43 PM UTC:
Except for the promotions to Buddhist Spirit / Teaching King because of 'contageon' in Maka Dai Dai Shogi
XBoard supports Maka Dai Dai with its 19x19 board and 50 piece types? Holy crap!
Fairy-Max not supporting under-promotion, and only allowing promotion to the army's own superpiece, this problem so far did not occur in CwDA. I still have the feeling that this promotion to opponent piece types is an ugly solution to a non-existent problem, as the armies that supposedly would be disadvantaged by promotion to own pieces are already overly strong without that.
Yeah, I'm not sure this rule really needed to be this way. The Nutters are the ones most likely to promote to another piece since their pieces can't move backwards quickly and so a promoted piece is stuck, greatly reducing the value of promotion. But that army also seems to be over-powered and it is not obvious how to weaken it. Preventing promotion to a piece from the other army might be a good way to go, but that would be a change to the game and not just a change to the army.
Any guess when you think you'll have your new cwda engine ready for testing?
XBoard supports Maka Dai Dai with its 19x19 board and 50 piece types? Holy crap!
Yeah, I'm not sure this rule really needed to be this way. The Nutters are the ones most likely to promote to another piece since their pieces can't move backwards quickly and so a promoted piece is stuck, greatly reducing the value of promotion. But that army also seems to be over-powered and it is not obvious how to weaken it. Preventing promotion to a piece from the other army might be a good way to go, but that would be a change to the game and not just a change to the army.
Any guess when you think you'll have your new cwda engine ready for testing?