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In the wiki, it is indicated Chancellor=O,
https://github.com/ianfab/Musketeer-Stockfish/wiki/Interface

I would suggest to use M for Marshall.

Ref.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess_piece

Hi, sorry for leaving an issue here but I couldn't find an email address for you anywhere. I was wondering if you could send me an email at [email protected] - I'm working on this repo for Zied (pychess integration) and I have some questions, if you don't mind talking to me? Would be much appreciated!

hi
i'm interested in chess and variants. i like particularly this one as i met with the inventor and he shared with me many of his ideas and choices. find it incredible.
how can i use this porgram to play it?
also i see a server pychess to play chess and variants. why this variant doesn't exist there? how to make it exist there as i saw that stockfish is behind pychess website.
thank you
RAPHAEL

Tried compiling it in windows using mingw, but it looks like xboard files are missing.

Example: 2hu**/rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR/2HU** w KQkq - 0 1

Originally reported in #4 (comment)

Hello ianfab, there is an issue that result from the disconsistent of rank start in different variant.

the rank of the move generation is starting from 1 in the supported variant grand chess in fairy-stockfish, while in Musketeer-stockfish the rank is starting from 0. This disconsistent behavior is a trouble for the implementation in the GUI to support both of the two variants mentioned at the same time.

I have read the move format at https://github.com/ianfab/Musketeer-Stockfish/wiki/Interface.

What I did in WB (Winboard) is just follow the seirawan variant of gating a piece. If a player wants to gate a Hawk at b-file, he may press the Hawk,

and then move the knight from b1 say to c3, and I will send the move to WB like below.
b1c3h
WB will update the board by moving the knight to c3 and gates the Hawk to b1.

In musketeer, piece selection and gating is part of move history, but WB does not support this, so what I did is build an option for the user to select the piece and gating file, before the game would start.
Piece selection:

File Selection:

For uci you can create such options like,
option name Hawk type check default false
option name WHawkFile type combo default any var any var a-file var b-file ... var h-file
The value "any" would make musketeer play like seirawan i.e a player can gate a piece at any file.

I just use the format similar to seirawan chess i.e the castle field also include the virgin files.
Example for Unicorn/Hawk combo on startpos.

rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR[HUhu] w KGFDCBQkgfdcbq - 0 1

In this example, white can gate a Hawk or Unicorn on files a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h. The K is for castle king-side, for gating at e-file and gating at h-file. When a h-rook is moved, it could no longer castle king-side and it could no longer gate at h-file. If the king at e1 is moved, it could no longer castle in king-side and queen-side, and could no longer gate at e-file. WB (winboard) understand this as game progresses, and able to identify which squares/files are still virgins. The Q is similar for d-file and a-file.

The user can pre-select which file a fairy piece would gate thru the option, see the issue on "Comment on move format"
When user selects the Hawk to gate at b-file, WB will inform the uci engine,
setoption name WHawkFile value b-file
The engine would then limit its move generation gating a piece at b-file.

Hi
I'm trying to make some experiments to play thematic tournament using Stockfish as sole engine. The idea is the following Make a tournament using Chancellor and Archbishop (among other combinations) and let the engine play 400 games to see the difference between Musketeer Stockfish and Seirawan Stockfish in terms of draw and win %.

Unfortunately, it's not possible to setup a sample of positions that can be used by stockfish because the default combination is Leopard and Cannon. The engine keeps skipping the positions using other fairy pieces.

How it's possible to make Stockfish play using another combination of pieces.

Thanks

I liked the feature offered by Fairy Max playing Musketeer Chess where a
first window with the 10 pieces are showed first.

And Following choice of the engine choice: Here i made of the choice of a
Unicorn and the engine have chosen an Amazon.

Here is the final position which is very fine and then the game can begin.

Originally posted by @musketeerchess in #4 (comment)