Fairymax

Jul 20, 2023

Chess engine for shatranj, courier chess, and others

fairy-Max is a version of micro-Max that reads the piece description from a file fmax.ini, so that arbitrary fairy pieces can be implemen- ted. This version supports up to 15 piece types, and board sizes upto 12x8 board. A Linux port exists in the format of a debian package.

You can use it e.g. with games/xboard/ e.g. xboard -boardSize Middling -variant courier -fcp fairymax

GIT http//hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/fairymax.git



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