Comments by thomas

Nice variant indeed, but still you are obscure in the rules. You don't
explain what happens to a piece in case it should be repelled because of
the opposite charge and it is blocked by another piece. Let me modify your
example: 
   8 . . . b . . . .       . . . b . . . .
   7 . . . . . . . .       . . . . . . . .
   6 . . . K . . . .  Qd5  . . . K . . . .
   5 . q R . . r P .   =>  ? ? ? Q r . P .
   4 . . . Q . . . .       . . . b . . . .
   3 . . . . . . . .       . . . . . . . .
   2 . . . b . . . .       . . . . . . . .
   1 . . . . . . . .       . . . . . . . .
     a b c d e f g h       a b c d e f g h

What happens in that case ? cheers Thomas.

Bug in the preset for Wildebeest Chess:

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DWildebeest+Chess%26settings%3DWildebeest+Chess+with+rules

Hi, I have written a preset for Wildebeest Chess some months ago. When I tested it (arount spring/summer of 2009) it seemed to work, but now it is no longer working. Before the first move it complained that the function definition of some function is wrong: the message was 'Function def requires more arguments than it has placeholders for.'. I fixed this by removing the function definitions, doing the calculation directly where the functions were previously called.

The function definition was:
def isKINGc == #2 K and == #0 f1  and match #1 a1 b1 c1 d1 h1 i1 j1 k1;

and it was called in post-move 1:
if fn isKINGc origin dest moved:
  ...


Now there is still another bug: when the rook castles onto the origin square of the king (entered as a rook's move, e.g. a1-f1) then the king dissapears.

I am sure that I had checked this after writing the preset and it worked, before Jeremy Good made the preset the official one (see the comments at http://www.chessvariants.com/large.dir/wildebeest.html).


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Edit: I have found the bug and fixed it. I just forgot a ':' after the condition of an if-statement...

This is the person from last year about this variant. Are you gonna look for your notes again? It would be nice to see more of this again.