[chessx-developer] Chess variants.

[Kamil R. <kry...@gm...>]

Hi,
What do you think about suporting of chess variants games? XBoard can
open for example: atomic and crazyhouse games. I have many games from
FICS chess server in these variants. Everything is in normal PGN file.
It would be nice to open these games in chess database.

I know that main priority is to make *chess* database, but maybe in
future you can add support for more chess-like games.

Here is an example of losers game in PGN.

[Event "FICS unrated losers game"]
[Site "FICS, San Jose, California USA"]
[Date "2006.07.19"]
[Time "23:57:53"]
[Round "-"]
[White "KiboPlaying"]
[Black "ryoshu"]
[WhiteElo "1674"]
[BlackElo "1793"]
[TimeControl "180+0"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. c3 c5 2. Qa4 b5 3. Qxa7 Rxa7 4. a4 bxa4 5. Rxa4 Rxa4 6. g4 Rxg4 7. e4
Rxg1 8. Rxg1 g5 9. Rxg5 c4 10. Rxg8 Rxg8 11. Bxc4 Qc7 12. Bxf7+ Kxf7 13. c4
Qxc4 14. b3 Qxc1+ 15. Ke2 Qxd2+ 16. Kxd2 Rg3 17. fxg3 d5 18. exd5 Nc6 19. dxc6
Bb7 20. cxb7 Ke6 21. b8=B Kd5 22. Be5 Kxe5 23. b4 Kf6 24. h4 Ke5 25. h5
Bh6+ 26. Kc3 Bd2+ 27. Nxd2 Kd6 28. Ne4+ Kc7 29. Nd6 exd6 30. b5 Kd8 31. b6
d5 32. Kb3 d4 33. b7 d3 34. b8=Q+ Kd7 35. Qd8+ Kxd8 36. g4 d2 37. Kb4 d1=R
38. g5 Rc1 39. Ka4 Rb1 40. g6 hxg6 41. hxg6 Rh1 42. g7 Rh8 43. gxh8=N
{Black wins by losing all material} 0-1

regards ryoshu