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Vanguard Chess. Game on 16x16 board, with 48 pieces per player. (16x16, Cells: 256) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Tue, Jul 25, 2023 10:52 PM UTC:

OK, I got through the edits on most of your notes, H.G.

I'm not sure what the problem could be that you're having with the Bowman moving close to the edge; the nN part of the XBetza should handle that.

What I did get:

  • The "morph" parameter on the Pawn, Soldier, and Sergeant
  • Fixed the Sergeant's sideways move in the ID
  • Redid the diagrams for Bowman, Helepolis, and Nightrider
  • Clarified the text descriptions for the Berserker and King
  • Deleted the Pawn-line strategy (it turns out, that's good advice for most chess games -- or at least that's how the ID plays -- so it's not that important.)

Still need to:

  • Fix the text for Bowman, per notes
  • Possibly another try with the Helepolis diagram
  • Figure out if there's any way to code in the Royal promotion
  • Figure out if the Berserker might be more easily coded as [K?K]NAD
  • Explore similarly simple ways to code the Wizard's move ([F?fW3], perhaps? Plus the position-switching code, of course), then clarify the text based on what I find and per notes.