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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. November 2004, 20:37:23

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Hi Caissus,

I see, your example is probably Janus Chess. Janus Chess has a different Queens side castling than canonically understood for chessboards 10x8 or 8x8. But except of this feature the just rebuilt Smirf GUI will support Janus PGN inputs, if the appropriate FEN is included (J will be interpreted as A, Archbishop).

See the following transformed PGN

[Event "Casual Game"]
[Site "BrainKing.com (Prague, Czech Republic)"]
[Date "2004.08.07"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Caissus"]
[Black "EdTrice"]
[Result "*"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "ranbkqbnar/pppppppppp/0/0/0/0/PPPPPPPPPP/RANBKQB
NAR w KQkq - 0 1"]

1.e4 Ac6 2.Ng3 Nd6 3.Ac3 Ng6 4.Nb3 e5 5.f3 b6 6.Be2 Ah6 7.Be3 Bg5 8.Bxg5 Axg5
9.Ah3 Axh3 10.ixh3 Nf4 11.d4 Nxe2 12.Qxe2 f6 *

Reinhard.