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Bishops VS Zebras has finished!
Bishops wins:100
Zebras wins:74
draws:26
Bishops points:113
Zebras points:87
The last result is pretty bad as zebras did better against bishops than the stronger camel!
Could you pull together and redo your elaborate analisys. I'm sure you have cool things to say!
On a hex board the knight is an (2,1) leaper, an (m,n) leaper would be an leaper that jumps to all squarez (actually 12-if n<>m) that can be reached through a hexrook move of m and then a move of n, or first n and then m, as in regular board chess. This is what I meant!
Apothecary 1 Knights (NmZ) vs Champions (WAD) has finished
Knights wins: 86
Champions wins:96
draws:18
Knights Points :95
Champions Points:105
Apothecary 2 Elephants(FAmH) vs Camels(LmW)
Elephant wins :97
Camels wins: 81
draws:22
Elephant points:108
Camels Points:92
Apothecary 1 Champions(WAD) vs Bishops (B) has finished:
Champions wins:112
Bishops wins:67
draws:21
Champions Points:122.5
Bishops Points:77.5
H.G.,
I have made an account on talkchess.com but it did not get activated, I've noticed you are an moderator there, too. Can you help me activate it . It says I have to wait for someone to aprouve, but there has been half a week by now.
Apothecary 1 Knights(NmZ) VS Wizards(LF) has finished:
Knights wins:97
Wizard wins:83
draws:20
Knights Points:107
Wizard Points :93
Now the minor pieces vs pawns tests have started. In these tests 1 (and just 1) minor piece is deleted and that side receives an extra pawn in compensation. The opposite side has 2 pawns deleted for a total of 3 pawns for the piece. The first apothecary 2 such test has finished with the following results:
Zebra VS 3 Pawns
Zebra Wins: 101
Pawns Wins:72
Draws:27
Zebra Points :114.5
Pawns Points:85.5
I was personally expecting balance here, so I'm a little surprized.
Apothecary 2 Camel (LmW) vs 3Pawns has finished
Camels wins:96
3Pawns wins:73
draws:31
Camel Points:111.5
3Pawns Points :88.5
Apothecary 1 Wizards (LF) vs 3Pawns has finished
Wizards wins:117
3Pawns wins:68
draws:15
Wizards Points:124.5
3Pawns Points :75.5
Apothecary 1 Champions(WAD) vs 3 pawns has finished
Champions wins:116
3 pawns wins:68
draws:16
Champions points:124
3 pawns points:76
Apothecary 2 Elephant (FAmH) vs 3 Pawns has ended.
Elaphants wins:114
3Pawns wins :64
draws:22
Elephants Points:125
3Pawns points:75
Gross Chess. A big variant with a small learning curve. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I was aware of this variant and was also recommended this variation by Fergus Duniho himself when posting about my own apothecary games.
I'm glad that someone has thought about the weird promotion before me so it means I'm not that crazy. Even if aware of the variant, I utterly forgot where I have took the weird promotion rule from, was it from my own mind or was it another variant. Anyway it is great that we can play a game that has a similar promotion rule to my apothecary games. Although in apothecary there is no concept of holdings.
ChessV. Program for playing numerous Chess variants against your PC.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Greg,
I just watched an Enep game where the Enep knight has captured with an wazir move, this is not supposed to happen, could you please check?
Hello again Greg,
I contemplating writing code for my upcomming (still in testing phase) apothecary games, but I see the way movement is implemented, that there is no easy way of implementing the aanca and griffin.
The move info contains rank modification, file modification and maximum and minimum number of steps from what I understood. Nothing about a second legged move.
Am I correct? Do I miss something?
Thanks, Greg
I'll attempt to implement apothecary in chessV, hope to succeed.
Greg,
Well, there are two main reasons I'm doing this.
1. Implementing the correct promotion rule that fairy-max isn't able to do (i.e. promoting to a minor on 8th rank, also a rook at 9th rank and also a major piece (queen,griffin,aanca, archbishop,chancellor),at 10th rank)..
2. Adding the fool (imitator) that mimics the last move of the opponent.
Not sure how to do those now but I got hints for the second from the mimotaur implementation.
Technical question:
Where is the main and the .prj file? Both would help! I need the main to be able to test my creations.
Hello Greg,
I don't understand the board representation.
What does nsquare +1 mean? Does it advance ranks or files? How do I advance the other one? I am assuming nsquare+nfiles for the next rank or something like this.
Thanks for your help!
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So, are the hex camel and hex zebra color binded?