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Thunderstruck Server Chess. {This game seems broken…}. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Mon, Jul 1 03:21 PM UTC in reply to Lev Grigoriev from 02:35 PM:

If you use parentheses around a repeated group in XBetza, without indicating with a following digit how many repeats you maximally want, it uses the maximum board dimension as a wild guess. For the Hexmaster the repeated group describes 3 steps rather than one. So even on a board of size 10 repeating it 3 times already spans the full board. When there are additional steps outside of the parentheses, you probably only need two repeats.

So you could just insert a 2 behind the closing parenthesis, to suppress all the longer repeats that would never fit the board anyway.