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Steve Warner (Ceratopsian)
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Username: Ceratopsian

Post Number: 8
Registered: 12-2007

Posted on Friday, January 18, 2008 - 8:29 am:

The following command should force a draw when either side is reduced to one piece:

(draw-condition (White Black) (pieces-remaining 1))

In the Basic Game of Chaos (the first game I created) it works just fine. But it's not working properly in my Intermediate Game. I suspect that this is because I needed to add dummy positions for each piece. Instead of capturing pieces I move them to these dummy positions so that they can be resurrected later.

I thought that the following command would rectify the problem but it doesn't:

(option "include off-pieces" false)

Any ideas how to fix the problem? Are the dummy positions cauing the problem or could it be something else?

M Winther (Kalroten)
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Username: Kalroten

Post Number: 52
Registered: 1-2007

Posted on Friday, January 18, 2008 - 11:33 am:

(option "include off-pieces" false) relates to pieces not yet dropped. This is a somewhat strange rule because in chess variants mating capability is what counts. But there is really no reason to bother about forcing a draw when only one piece is left because the player can decide that it is a draw himself, without the aid of the computer.

Mats