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Chess variants (10x8)

Sam has closed his piano and gone to bed ... now we can talk about the real stuff of life ... love, liberty and games such as
Janus, Capablanca Random, Embassy Chess & the odd mention of other 10x8 variants is welcome too

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25. Março 2003, 04:52:13

Grim Reaper

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Assunto: Re: More on the Lucena

Ah ha, now I see our difference honed in upon, finally! OK, remember the original 10x8 board was 'Capablanca' which had Bishops on the d and g files, not c and h files. For this reason, I 'translated' the concept of the file name to the literals (a,b,c,d,etc) from the descriptive notation tying a piece to the back rank (rook pawn, knight's pawn, etc) since the descriptive notation would vary depending on which 10x8 board you used!

So, placing the pawns in the rook file on the 8x8 board was just transplanted to the h-file in Gothic.

I was caught in a catch-22: using descriptive notation would be different depending on your 10x8 style of preference, yet using hard coded literals should not be done by rote.

I did not re-translate the destination files when moving it onto Gothic.

But everything else was true :)

The draw I showed in 8x8 chess would be a win on the 10x8 board, moving the EXACT position as was shown.