Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To M Winther wrote on Tue, Apr 21, 2009 11:24 AM UTC:I don't know about the Winboard interface, although I have also noted that it exists. But Zillions also have an internal interface for playing between two human players over the net (menu 'Net'). However, I don't know whether it works because I have never tried it. Thanks for the testing work. It was useful, and I couldn't have done it with Zillions. Nevertheless, Zillions is superior because it is easy to implement chess variants and to publish them. One can publish them freely on the Zillions site. One can easily add new graphics. If the programs are tweaked, they play chess finely. Zillions is so powerful so you can handily create very complicated solutions with little code, such as pieces which can stymie the movement of other pieces, such as in Mongol Grand Chess, or pieces that use geometric proportions to capture enemy pieces, such as in Coordinator Chess. In practice, this cannot be done in Fairy-Max. It is the very ease with which one can create catapults, and very remarkable game properties, that makes Zillions superior to anything else. Lets's conclude that these softwares complement each other, but that Zillions is an indispensable software that cannot really be compared with anything else. This notion of speed of calculation is what people always return to, but I have never been interested in those strong bean counting programs, anyway. They don't play chess, anyway, only sterilely count variants. But with Zillions you can immediately download an immense multitude of chess variants and historical boardgames, such as Chivalry, which was played by such luminaries as J.R. Capablanca and Frank Marshal./Mats Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID MatsNewPieces does not match any item.