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Courier Eurasian Chess A game information page

. Eurasian Chess meets Courier-Spiel.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Graeme Neatham wrote on Fri, May 4, 2012 12:34 AM UTC:

I have started to recast the wiki page in wiki-syntax - hopefully this will speed up the page-loading.

The descriptions are intentionally brief as for the most part I would otherwise be repeating the descriptions from Eurasian Chess.

The pawn image clearly shows a white pawn that has crossed the river.

💡📝Graeme Neatham wrote on Fri, May 4, 2012 03:27 PM UTC:

Wiki page now uses wiki-syntax throughout.

Will Zillion-of-Games work with 64bit Windows 7?[Subject Thread] [Add Response]

Graeme Neatham wrote on Fri, Jun 29, 2012 09:52 PM UTC:

I have been running ZoG on 64bit Windows for about a year now

My System:
Manufacturer LENOVO
Model IdeaCentre A310 10056
Total amount of system memory 4.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2

Compound Courier Custom Chess. Game uses the Courier 12x8 board and adds knight compound pieces. (12x8, Cells: 96) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Graeme Neatham wrote on Fri, Mar 10, 2017 11:00 AM UTC:

Hi Malcolm,
Thanks for your interest in this variant. The move to the 3rd / 6th ranks for the Pawns was the last modification made to the starting array, and was an idea taken from Makruk (Thai Chess).
It was done to balance the loss of the Pawn's initial 2-step movement and the loss of castling. I did not see the undefended a, e, and l pawns as detrimental to the game.

The number of pieces for each compound type was based upon my estimates of their relative strengths - one of each for the more powerful and two of the least powerful Courier. In naming the piece types I try to ensure that the initial letters of the names different from each other.

Cheers
Graeme

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