🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Nov 27, 2010 07:14 PM UTC:
Attention Game Courier Developers:
If you have programmed any presets to enforce the rules, and you use variables to keep track of the location of the King or other royal piece, you will need to make a slight modification to your code for your preset to work properly with fairy chess problems. In most of the presets I've programmed, I have code that looks like this:
set K e1; set k e8;
To work with fairy chess problems, in which the Kings might be found anywhere on the board at the beginning of the problem, this code needed to be changed to this:
set K findpiece K spaces; set k findpiece k spaces;
This change will allow Game Courier to know the position of the Kings when a fairy chess problem begins, allowing it to properly use code for recognizing check and checkmate.
I am currently going through my own presets, making the appropriate modifications. For some games with different royal pieces, this code has to be modified.
Attention Game Courier Developers:
If you have programmed any presets to enforce the rules, and you use variables to keep track of the location of the King or other royal piece, you will need to make a slight modification to your code for your preset to work properly with fairy chess problems. In most of the presets I've programmed, I have code that looks like this:
To work with fairy chess problems, in which the Kings might be found anywhere on the board at the beginning of the problem, this code needed to be changed to this:
This change will allow Game Courier to know the position of the Kings when a fairy chess problem begins, allowing it to properly use code for recognizing check and checkmate.
I am currently going through my own presets, making the appropriate modifications. For some games with different royal pieces, this code has to be modified.