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Which computer was that?
Seems interesting, I played a game and got annihilated in like 5 moves by the computer though.
A historic and very playable variant. What's not to love?
The game can be played here: https://www.jocly.com/#/game/hyderabad-chess
Of course, no question about Grande Acedrex, where most of pieces are named after exotic animals.
This game uses an unusual initial setup to achieve a better result than The Sultan's Game, an 11x11 chess variant invented by L. Tressan in 1840. I tried replacing the Queen + Knight compound with the somewhat weaker Bishop + Nightrider compound in Unicorn Great Chess in 2001.
Excellent rating for a game this old, of course Christian Freeling's Grand Chess has set a new standard for chess on the 10x10 board.
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"A World of Chess" by Jean-Louis Cazaux and Rick Knowlton has this game as Hyderabad decimal chess, with rules which I find a significant improvement to Gollon's. I've made some further suggestions here: https://sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/bgs-2022-0017