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In article <2irn4n$cbs@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> vaughnl@ucs.orst.edu (Luke Vaughn) writes:
>I noticed a post mentioning a Shatranji(sp?) variant of Gnu Chess, and am 
>wondering, has anyone programmed any of the Shogi variations using Gnu Chess?
>

There is a program GNU Shogi (gnushogi.*.gz), that plays the game of Shogi.
It is available from the usual GNU FTP sites.

>In particular, I would be interested in the 12x12 or 25x25 board setups.
>

Only the normal 9x9 board is supported.

>FYI, Shogi comes from Japan, has several different board sizes with somewhat
>different rules between them, and an expanded set of playing pieces with the
>larger boards, going upwards of a total of 300+ pieces on the board with the
>25x25 version.
>
>I suppose I should also mention that Im mostly looking for something that has
>the board programmed along with the rules of play. Im not expecting there to be
>code for even a semi-decent computer player, knowing how long the any of the
>versions can take to finish one game.
>

GNU Shogi provides a computer opponent! There's also a X Window interface
to GNU Shogi (xshogi.*.gz), which is a modification of xboard 2.1.

It should be possible to expand GNU Shogi and XShogi in order to support
the Shogi versions with bigger board sizes (just the board handling, of
course). **Luke**, please look at GNU Shogi and XShogi and make suggestions.

>Thanks,
>Luke Vaughn
>vaughnl@ucs.orst.edu
>
>

Matthias Mutz
mutz@fmi.uni-passau.de