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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