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SMIRFBROKEN LINK!. Program that plays various 8x10 chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
M Winther wrote on Wed, Jan 24, 2007 09:04 PM UTC:
Smirf clearly improves its positional play when given more time. This is
unusual. But it has a rather passive style of play. Another thought:
different alternative variants can also be achieved by keeping the same
pieces but introduce the Gustavian board (
http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/gustaviii.htm ). S Trenholme did this in
Capablanca Gustavian (zrf) which can be downloaded from yahoo (chess
variants). It is an interesting concept. The smaller board might affect
the unruly Archbishops and Chancellors so that they are somewhat
neutralized.
/Mats