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Synochess. (Updated!) Asymmetric west vs east variant where the western chess army plays against a Chinese and Korean-inspired army.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Apr 4 07:44 AM UTC in reply to HaruN Y from Sun Apr 28 2024 07:56 PM:

@HaruN Y

Thanks for the Diagram on this one. I was thinking about equipping the in-hand soldiers with all kinds of distant leaps from 9th rank, or situating those on extra 5th-rank squares left and right with an s(mpoa)mR move. But restricting mU with a morph is much simpler. Declaring the in-hand soldiers iron to remove the need for a gap between those and the board is also a trick I had not thought of.

P.S. It did need promoZone=2 for the white promotions to work. And it revealed a bug in the script, as the General was considered royal despite the fact that it was not mentioned in the royal=K. I suppose the problem is that a royal parameter menitioning the pieces by ID rather than number can only be processed after all piece definitions have been read, while with a number they set the royalness variables immediately. So defaulting the last-defined piece to royal in none is yet defined appears to happen too early.