What do you think about it? With an additional rule of promoting pawns only to pieces which are already captured, in order to eliminate white's big advantage.

fariborz2: Is there a link to some official rules?

fariborz2: This one?

ustica: That's exactly what is being solved here on several last pages, if you read them :-D

AbigailII: The problem is that both approaches have their pros and cons. If I leave it as it is, people can complain that all games in the tournament are the same and some players can observe moves of the strongest player and copy them in their own games. On the other hand, if a new position would be generated for each game, players could think that it's not fair because some positions can be better or more balanced than the other ones.

AbigailII: This is a common issue and should be solved for all games with generated positions. there are two options - leave it as it is or change it to run the generator for each single game separately.

Caissus: I think Omega Chess must be licenced too.

jcarrillovii: Most likely because I don't have such flag. Can you send it to info@brainking.com?

jcarrillovii: It depends on your/opponent's weekend and vacation days.

jcarrillovii: Why not? The standard chess opening is a valid position as well.

Caissus: Yes, that's true. But it can be made as a side one-hour project when I'll be too tired of making Xiangqi, Shogi etc.

Sumerian, Caissus: Ironically, the Hyper Backgammon (very fast and easy game) happened the third most popular game on BK only a week after its launch. The truth is that MANY people want to play simple and quick games.

Sumerian: All right, I can leave it as it is.
Btw, what about the Mini Chess? Is it worth adding?

Sumerian: So what's the result? In a real tournament, one position is generated at the start and then used for all games? Or is it created for each game individually?

How is it solved in real FRC tournaments, is every game provided a different random position? On BrainKing, all games of the same tournament start with the same position.

jcarrillovii: Good. Promote away :-)
Btw, the castling bug is fixed.

Read the Bug Tracker.

Sumerian: I think some other applications can read it too because nobody ever complained about it. But never mind, I've found the bug.

Sumerian: Ah-ha. A small bug. But it's still readable in the pgn software, right?

Btw, I've also improved the PGN generator to use line breaks before exceeding 80 characters per line. Can you check it please?

Sumerian: It's a common concept of all BK games with a generated position. But, of course, it can be changed globally, so the position would be generated after the invitation is accepted, not before. Or, with less changes to the code, the position wouldn't be shown until the game is started.

Sumerian: Not hard, time consuming.

But I prefer to use my position generator instead of keeping a database of all positions. Because it can be used for any similar chess variant, e.g. Corner Chess, Fortress Chess, etc.

Sumerian: Yes, I know.

Good news. I've just finished the FRC model and also updated the PGN generator for all chess variants supported on BK.
Now I only need to write the FRC rules and upload everything to the site.

jcarrillovii: Yes, it is a good idea too. Thanks.

Sumerian: Yes, I know. I've found the rules.

Sumerian: That's a good idea.

jcarrillovii: There is a problem with castling in this variant. BrainKing chess engine expects that a castling move is indicated by a king moving more than one space left/right. However, in Fisher Random Chess and with certain starting positions, it doesn't have to be true. So, the engine must be improved before the game can be implemented.

Mikezilla: There is always a chance.
WhisperzQ: No, why? What I want is to increase the number of paying members. Whatever happens outside BK is less relevant.

Caissus: Yes. Chinese Chess will be added too. And also Japanase, Korean and Thai Chess.

danoschek: That's right. However, I've just managed to negotiate the fee to only 20 Euro. It means, if the game brings at least 1 new paying member, the expenses would be covered.

danoschek: It's not fairly easy to implement but it's not impossible. I just want to know a possible interest because the game creater wants 100 Euro a year for the licence.

Does anybody know of a game called Arimaa? Would it be interesting to add it to BK?

Do you mean Pardubice in Czech Republic?

What about Alice Chess, does anybody play this game?

Sure, it's planned to be added as well.

Thanks Caissus.

Okay, I have prepared Berolina Chess, Amazon Chess and Cylinder Chess. They will be released with the next batch of games.
Btw, does anybody know how the Amazon piece should look like? :-)

I see. Unfortunatelly, BK doesn't support games for more than 2 players at the moment.

What is bughouse?

Amazonechess can be implemented in minutes because the amazone is an equivalent to maharajah of Maharajah chess :-)
But I'll read the rules of other mentioned variants first.

Thank you. It does not mean that I'll add this game next week but should put this task up at my TODO list :-)

What about Chinese Chess? Is there any good graphics available?