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1.I suddenly became black
2.The pieces do random moves
3.The pieces don't move the way I want it to
4.King can touch king
5.I can skip a turn by clicking king then the piece then the king then the piece
6.A king can take a king
7.After taking a king the kings self destruct
8. what is mate in 501?
9.mate in 509?
and others
Ah, you just don't like the way it is designed to work...
I will fix 5 and 8/9
also how did pieces "fly" to any square?
Because you moved it there? (Just guessing, as I cannot see what you are doing...)
No I mean how can a piece go to any square on the board?
You click the piece, and then you click the square where you want it to go. Or you press the mouse button while over the piece, keep it presssed while you drag it to the square you want it to go, and release the button there.
Anyway, I changed the message it displays when there is no forced mate to say 'draw'. And you can now also change your selection of white piece without triggering a black move.
Where can I play chess with these "fairy pieces"?
I upgraded the checkmating applet a bit; You can now also select larger boards, and boards of different shapes. Amongst which the 4-player board.
Where can I play chess with these "fairy pieces"?
ummmm 4 player chess
Where can I play chess with these "fairy pieces"?
ummmm 4 player chess
But how?
magic
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what about 2 wildebeests?
3 camels?
3 knights?
I played 2 wildebeests with comfuter, then checkmate.
Game link: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=4005694
Interesting: a single Wildebeest normally has no mating potential. Only helpmates are possible.
But the concave corners in the 4-player board actually do enable it to deliver checkmate. The square where it can do this would ly off board for a rectangular board.
The Knight above represents a Wildebeest, which forces the bare King into the corner with check. By moving to d0 it can then deliver checkmate, if d0 is on the board. On a rectangular board it would not be, and there are no mate-in-2 positions there.
So a single Wildebeest is already enough to force checkmate, in 4-player Chess. You can try it in the checkmating applet.
The same holds for a pair of Knights. These can also force checkmate in 4-player Chess. The 3-vs-1 checkmating applet cannot handle a full-size 4-player board, but on a 10x10 board with this type of corners it can demonstrate the technique for the final blow.
2 Alibabas: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=3757945 I am very on the fence about this; the result of the game was that this is a very hard but possible mate without stupidity from the opponent, but I would appreciate a post confirming or rejecting this hypothesis. "
The above hypothesis is false because red can't force yellow to get out from the center of the table .
Wrong. All that is needed is a king and an alibaba to force yellow out using zugzwang. Use your brain
I had hoped for a 3v1 checkmating applet. My first attempt underestimated the time necessary to produce an EGT for a 10×10 board. So I went back to the 8×8 for what I think is the most interesting 3v1 mate, king+met+khon vs king (makruk). It's a very tricky mate, especially with makruk's draw rule looming overhead. Surprisingly, the longest mate length required is 57 (!) moves.
A couple notes: 1) I was unable to move the met onto the first rank. It kept saying to select a piece, while the met was already selected. Other pieces moved as expected. 2) Even with "stalemate is a win" selected, the enemy king played into stalemate.
As to (1), you are right! Thank you for spotting this. What happens is that, because the Met was defined as the first piece, the Diagram considered it a Pawn. So it wanted to promote it, and expected you to select a piece from the table to promote it to. I thought I had prevented that by configuring the diagram with promoZone=0. But apparently the diagram script does something fishy in that case, which I should check out: the 1st rank should never be considered a promotion zone for white. Anyway, I have now also specified maxPromote=0, (instead of the default 1), meaning that none of the piece types can promote, and this at least seems to work.
As to (2), are you sure you rebuilt the EGT after ticking "Stalemate is a win"? If so, what end-game, and do you still remember the position?
And yes, the time needed grows explosively with board size. On my (pretty fast) desktop KNNK on 10x10 takes 121 sec (against 8x8 18 sec). No idea how much it would take on a tablet or phone.
[Edit] The code I had added to force promotion when a Pawn reaches last rank, on behalf of Chu Shogi, was the cullprit; it did not check if that last rank was actually in the promotion zone.
You are probably thinking, "I know simple mates, they are easy! You can mate with Q and R and BB and BN but with nothing else." This is true, but with 20 different fairy pieces and a non-royal king, there are a lot more simple mates to analyze. Here are a few basic ones I did against a comfuter and the result:
Amazon: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=3757707 Easy Mate
Elephant: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=3757714 Easy Mate
Hawk: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=3757729 Mate
General: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=3757740 Mate
Wildebeest: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=3757754 No mate, unless the opponent blunders
2 Ferzes: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=3757802 No mate, unless the opponent blunders
2 Wazirs: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=3757833 No mate, unless the opponent blunders
Knight-Rider: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=3757870 Mate impossible
Camel-Rider: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=3757886 Mate impossible
Alibaba-Rider: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=3757907 Mate impossible
2 Alfils: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=3757916 No mate, unless the opponent blunders (note: the mate with 2 Dabbabas is not covered because it is very similar to 2 Alfils.)
2 Alibabas: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=3757945 I am very on the fence about this; the result of the game was that this is a very hard but possible mate without stupidity from the opponent, but I would appreciate a post confirming or rejecting this hypothesis.
2 Camels: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=3757962 No mate, unless the opponent blunders
Finally, I know that the king is not a fairy piece, but you probably have not learned how to mate with 1 royal and 1 non-royal king because normal chess does not have promotion to kings. So:
King: https://www.chess.com/4-player-chess?g=3758006 Mate
Post if you got a different result in a game or if you want to add a different basic mate. Here are the rules for new basic mates:
1. Let's call the set of all your pieces in the mate P. If it has been proven possible that a subset of P can also be used to mate, your mate has redundant pieces and therefore should not be posted.
2. Easy mate < 15 moves, very hard mate requires a lot of thought or takes close to 50 moves. Anything in between is just mate.
3. If you achieve mate, check to see if the opponent could have escaped mate easily somewhere during the game (especially if you are playing against a comfuter or a randobot).
I think you should mention the colours of the alibabas because, like bishops, they can only stay on one colour.
He mean no matter what color of course
According to the 3-vs-1 checkmating applet, two Alibabas in general is a draw. On 8x8 only 0.2% of all positions with the weak side to move are lost. This happens when the bare King is already trapped in a corner by the enemy King and one Alibaba. That it can take many moves is just because it takes time to approach with the other Alibaba. When the Alibabas are of the same shade, no mate is possible at all, of course.
It just don't work...-_-