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📝Greg Strong wrote on Sat, Oct 16, 2004 02:58 PM UTC:
There is no good reason for limiting the colors; I just haven't gotten
around to adding the color-picker dialog yet.

There are several reasons why it would be problematic to make global piece
& color settings.  For one thing, not all piece sets are supported by all
games.  Right now only the Standard set supports all, but the Abstract set
is pretty close.  Also, although right now all boards are 2-colors, the
boards for some games will be 3 or 4 colors.  Finally, I wanted to be able
to provide default settings for games, like Chaturanga, for example, always
appears for the first time on an uncheckered board with the Old World
pieces.  If you could provide global settings, then it wouldn't appear
right by default - it would have checkered squares.

Thanks for the bug report!  Someone had reported this on sourceforge, but
didn't provide me with an example, so I couldn't reproduce it.  Now it
should be easy to track down ...