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Rule Zero. A base or starting rule set for most Chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
SBlkWlf wrote on Mon, Jul 1, 2002 11:39 PM UTC:
i don't know that this is really practical, or any more practical than
simply stating what specific rule changes from FIDE a particular variant
has on the page of it's original listing.  Isn't FIDE Rule Zero enough?

     Also, along the lines of Thomas's sugesstion, a more useful
compilation might prove to be a Zillions scripted Piececlopedia. 
Considering the wealth of work Ralph's done, surely by now most of the more
common pieces are presently defined in zrf terms somewhere.  Now THAT would
be a time saver!

    Instead of hunting through endless variants to see how a certain piece
might be defined, have all of them gathered in one file that could be
copy/cut/pasted from into a new variant.  We could even have a user rating
as to which specific manner of scripting a certain piece proved to be the
most effective; additionaly things like castling under all the variously
described conditions could be included also.

IMHO.