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Hi!

It would be really nice to have a generalized chess-program in KDE (fairy-chess). Nice features would be:
-Arbitrary board-size
-Arbitrary figures:
-Possible solution 1: Write them as combinations of existing figures with some variables (for example a (3,1)-horse) etc.
-Possible solution 2: Small scripts returning a list of possible movements for a given constellation (or maybe with other parameters)
-Play it against humans (maybe in network-mode, AI would be unimportant, of course there could be a very simple AI using a rating-function manually written for each variant)
-KHotNewStuff with an uploading-feature for your best chess-variants
-Save your party
-Support for images for different figures
-Modified win/lose/remis-constellations
-Do something special with removed figures (for example change the team)
-Chess for more than two players
-Chess with more than two dimensions
-Chess with non-quadratic cells
-Torus-Chess
-Random start-constellations
-...your idea

These are only examples for things that could be possible. Of course I know that we should first focus on a few most-important features and then add those extra-features we want to have.

How would you think about such a game?

The User

Another feature came to my mind: In KDE's cardgames you can select a deck-style. There could be such styles for chess-figures, too. (maybe something like this should be integrated into libkdegames)

Why -1?