CRAZYWA(6)

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version 0.0.0~git2019.06.13 · 4 versions
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💖 CRAZYWA 💖

okay bestie, welcome to <pink>crazywa</pink> (man page 6, section 6, we love a classic) — an xboard-compatible engine that plays chess and shogi variants, and yes it does the piece-drop thing. buckle up. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

crazywa — xboard-compatible engine for chess and shogi variants with piece drops 🦋

🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

crazywa

that's it. that's the whole vibe. literally just run it. 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so like, crazywa is a program that plays several shogi and chess variants with piece drops, on boards of sizes up to 11 x 11, and with maximally 32 piece types. no cap. 🤯

currently it can play:

  • mini-shogi
  • Judkin's shogi
  • tori shogi
  • regular shogi
  • wa shogi
  • crazyhouse

and in the future? it might play more shogi variants. we stay hopeful. ✨

CrazyWa talks using the XBoard/WinBoard chess-engine protocol, which means it can use XBoard as a graphical interface for the variants that XBoard also supports. and for wa shogi, bestie, the use of XBoard 4.9.1 is recommended. noted. 📝

if you wanna know how to use crazywa through xboard, go read xboard(6). but for the quick-and-dirty startup you literally just need this command:

xboard -fcp crazywa

and then you use XBoard's New Variant dialog to pick whichever variant you wanna play. easy. iconic. 🎀

normally XBoard uses western-style chess symbols to represent the pieces. but XBoard's board themes are configurable, so it can also use externally provided png or svg images for the pieces. and YES, piece sets for traditional oriental pieces for shogi and various shogi variants are available. 🌸

some of these piece sets make use of XBoard's capability to write unicode inscriptions on the piece images, to synthesize arbitrary kanji pieces 'on the fly' from just a few images of blank shogi tiles. the way that works?? obsessed. 😭 also there's a 'mnemonic' piece theme of geometric shapes available too. variety is the spice of life. 🦋

🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

the source code can be obtained at:

http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi

go get it, it's giving open source. 💜

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

⭐ STANDARDS ⭐

WinBoard, xboard(6) interface ("Chess Engine Communication Protocol") 🫶

💖 AUTHOR 💖

H.G.Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>. ✨

this manual page was generated with pod2man(1). so like, a machine made this page, but the drama is all mine. 💅

okay that's the whole thing bestie, you're so smart for reading all of it, main character energy fr fr 🦋 and just so you know, this page came with perl v5.30.0 and is dated 2019-09-14. periodt. 💖

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