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Ultima. Game where each type of piece has a different capturing ability. Also called Baroque. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Jun 16, 2005 05:31 PM UTC:

<p>If you are interested in computer Ultima, please check out ChessV. It is free and open-source, and can be downloaded from:<br><a href='http://sourceforge.net/projects/chessv'>http://sourceforge.net/projects/chessv</a><br>I would like to see computer competition, but at present, I believe that my program is the only one in the world that is even capable of implementing the rules correctly. (Zillions plays for capture-the-king instead of checkmate, which, for reasons difficult to explain, is different and does affect the way it plays. Zillions also plays this game very badly because it assigns material values to the pieces that are not even close.) I hope to add support for Rococo to ChessV in the near future. Zillions also does not play Rococo correctly; some complex Chameleon captures don't work right.</p>