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Vanguard Chess. Game on 16x16 board, with 48 pieces per player. (16x16, Cells: 256) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Sep 28, 2023 06:59 AM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from Wed Sep 27 11:56 PM:

Addendum: I have it now looking like I think it should. Now to work on the Game Courier code....

Unfortunately the betza.txt GAME-code include file does not support more than a single locust victim per move. (Which is the same limitation that the betza.js script imposed on the ID, end was only relieved in the betzaNew.js that is under development.) It is not even possible to use the option of defining Custom Pieces, as the problem is not only in generating the move, but that the employed move encoding and code that finally applies the generated move to the board has no provisions for more than a single locust victim.

A work-around for when you still would want to use the Play-Test Applet system for automation would be to define the Helepolis 'buldozer moves' as multi-hopping, rather than multi-capturing in the Diagram you are going to convert, and then append some GAME code to the Post-Move sections to remove all pieces that were hopped over.