Enter Your Reply

OK, I see now that I missed the 'Complete' rule description on your site;
I had only looked at the summary. I was of course interested to see how
Fairy-Max could be generalized to handle this variant. Ithin this should
not be too difficult: it should keep a running count of the number of Kings
(this is easy to add, in fact it can keep counts for any piece type), and
then count the number of Kings that can be captured (being careful to count
two captures of the same King as just one King), and only consider it a win
if all Kings can be captured from the same position.

Am I correct in assuming that the following position is draw due to
stalemate?

8 . . . . . . R .
7 . . . . . . . .
6 . . . . . . . .
5 . . . . . . . .
4 . . . . . . . .
3 . . . . . . . .
2 . . . . K N h h
1 . . . . . . k k
  a b c d e f g h
  black to move

I am aware of the 'analysis' of piece values by the person that cannot be
mentioned here. This is just educated guessing, though, and in practice
this turns out to be useles for determination of piece values. The
Scharnagle theory is still-born, as it even does not get the orthodox
pieces rights: it values Queen exactly equal to Rook + Bishop, whle it is
well known that there is more than a Pawn difference between the two. Fact
is that between equal players, having A+P in stead of Q in an otherwise
complete FIDE army, gives you the better end of the score. (As I reported
in the forum of the website with the forbidden name.)