NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       crazywa

DESCRIPTION

       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.  Currently it can play
       mini-shogi, Judkin's shogi, tori shogi, regular shogi, wa shogi and crazyhouse.  In the
       future it might play more shogi variants.

       CrazyWa uses the XBoard/WinBoard chess-engine protocol to communicate.  It thus can use
       XBoard as a graphical interface for the variants also supported by the latter.  For wa
       shogi the use of XBoard 4.9.1 is recommended

       See xboard(6) for instructions about how to use crazywa through xboard.  To start up
       quickly, you just need the command: xboard -fcp crazywa.  You can then use XBoard's New
       Variant dialog to select the variant you want to play.

       Normally XBoard will use western-style chess symbols to represent the pieces.  XBoard's
       board themes is configurable, though, and can use externally provided png or svg images
       for the pieces.  Piece sets for traditional oriental pieces for shogi and various shogi
       variants are available.  Some of these 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.  A 'mnemonic' piece theme of geometric shapes is
       also available.

AVAILABILITY

       At http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi the source code can be obtained.

SEE ALSO

       xboard(6)

       game rules: http://hgm.nubati.net/rules

       XBoard: http://hgm.nubati.net

STANDARDS

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

AUTHOR

       H.G.Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>.

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