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Changes
I have added those 2 lines to the spartan.ini file as I am running 20 games! Yay! I am using this configuration of Spartan pieces:
l g c k k c w l

We will see how that goes.

STUDY
I have been looking over fmax.ini. Iam looking at this partion that appears to be about Spartan chess:

// Spartan Chess, where black has a different army from white's orthodox FIDE, with two kings
Game: fairy
8x8
6 4 5 7 3 5 4 6
11 9 3 10 10 3 8 11
p:74 -16,64 -16,6 -15,5 -17,5
h:74 15,E4 17,E4 16,5 15,6 17,6
k:-400 1,34 -1,34 1,7 16,7 15,7 17,7 -1,7 -16,7 -15,7 -17,7
n:259 14,7 31,7 33,7 18,7 -14,7 -31,7 -33,7 -18,7
b:296 15,3 17,3 -15,3 -17,3
R:444 1,3 16,3 -1,3 -16,3
Q:851 1,3 16,3 15,3 17,3 -1,3 -16,3 -15,3 -17,3
w:790 15,3 17,3 -15,3 -17,3 14,7 31,7 33,7 18,7 -14,7 -31,7 -33,7 -18,7
G:814 1,3 16,3 -1,3 -16,3 14,7 31,7 33,7 18,7 -14,7 -31,7 -33,7 -18,7
l:270 15,7 17,7 -15,7 -17,7 30,7 34,7 -30,7 -34,7 1,6 -1,6
c:250 1,7 16,7 -1,7 -16,7 2,7 -2,7 32,7 -32,7

I am guessing that the first number after the colon for each piece is the weight of the pices and the pairs of numbers that follow movement vectors. If that is correct then I could make some changes to the Spartan pieces to see how that impacted balance. Problem for me is I don’t know for sure if that is what this is and if these are movement characteristics I am not sure how to change them.

QUESTIONS
So, two questions

1. Do the number pairs, such at 1,7 in the last line for the colonel, define the piece movement?

2. If the answer to #1 is yes, is there some documentation on this? I don’t see a help file for Winboard. If I were to find and download a fresh copy of winboard would there be a help file explaining the layout of this file?