Program to create chess variant?

Anyone know of anything?

I know of many things!

Your question is not clear, however. What do you mean by 'create a chess variant'? A program that randomly cranks out a set of rules (e.g. for how large the board is, which pieces you have, how these are allowed to move, which square they start on, and what you would have to do to win).

As Pritchard wrote in his book about Chess variants: "It only takes 10 sec to create a new Chess variant, and unfortunately some people do!". So a computer could probably do (even more unfortunately) 1000/sec!

A program that is capable of having a board with functions similar to that of chess. So that one could customize a piece to move in said fashion chosen.

Ah, you mean like WinBoard/XBoard (GUI) and Fairy-Max or Nebiyu (engines, i.e. AI plugins for WinBoard). Or Zillions of Games (if you also would consider commercial software).

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