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Spirou: hehehehe.. I know.. I was just foolin with ya.. due to the fact that everyone has different tastes in music anyway.. and I am sure there would be lots of fuss over that extra type of feature.. :)
But I do like the bell sound feature that was suggested.. :)
Spirou: Oh yea.. a little music to the site.. Hmmm that is kewl.. Why stop at just the bell though.. Why not.. Hmmm a song to play continuously, like elevator music.. something comforting.. and relaxing..
pauloaguia: I agree. I suggest three improvements to this:
1- Be optional;
3- The bell stop when we go the the game and start again when we come back to the main page if there is yet game to reply;
3- A click somewhere to stop the bell;
If that request was already asked in the past I apologize.
I wish, when a red number is joined to the "Main page" saying I have to play a move, a little sound warn me. When I read a book or watch the TV,waiting a move, that could be very comfortable.
to bwildman: No reason for that. Because I am just about to write such an engine, I tend to use such criteria to characterize variants. It is clear that most people would use very different approaches to group or separate chess variants.
Computers! Maybe it's too much for humans to know all 960 starting position, but that sure doesn't stop a computer. Especially nowadays. For people, that's three orders of magnitude. Almost like making the start of the game an extra one and a half moves to think ahead before the game starts. This will work with people and the Chess will be more on how well you can move the pieces and how they work together, instead by rote and memorization. Computers on the other hand can start with all 960 positions and start working things out way in advance and have nice book ready for when the game starts. With the time it takes on the internet, even more so. This FRC Chess 960 is just a temporary solution for computer aided games, but I think it will work quite well with peple.
to bwildman: Of course castling is valid in FRC / Chess960. But because an FRC engine should support all valid FRC-FEN positions it automatically would support all variants without castlings, too. Some engines are limited to support a maximum of 16 pieces a color. But Smirf is able to have the complete board filled with pieces. Thus it could support a lot of variants based on 8x8 standard or 10x8 extended Capablanca piece set. May be it would be better to separate Fortress Chess, because it has more than 16 pieces a color?
Corner Chess and Fortress Chess are best to be compared with special types of Shuffle Chess because of the missing castling ability. Smirf could handle those and FRC too. Thus it could be accepted to join their boards in a kind of FRC Compatibility Group
It drives me crazy not knowing what color frog my opponent has gotten in froglet and anti-froglet....so I constantly have to go over to the game history section to find out the last move. Is there anyway to somehow display what color frog your opponent has captured?
i think you'd have to give the second player a turn if he is destroyed. If (s)he destroys the enemy it's a tie. Thus taking away the first turn advantage.
I have been playing some battle boats...I wonder what the game would be like if each shot hit the nine (actual shot plus neighboring spots) locations...kind of like atomic chess. OR..a shot could hit 5 spots...the one targeted and the ones above, below, and to the sides.
Just thinking out loud....well, hey, at least I am "Trying" to think