(06.05.2013) Good news for all chess composers - the new version 4.63 of the chess problem solving program Popeye was released a day ago!
Popeye 4.63 Release notes =========================
New fairy conditions -------------------- Circe Take&Make (Anti-Take&Make) Magic square type 2 Marine Chess and Ultramarine Chess SuperGuards Wormholes
New fairy pieces ---------------- Marine Knight Marine Pawn Marine Ship Poseidon
Bug fixes --------- - Messigny chess: special captures (ep and capture as goal) now work - Geneva Chess: removed the influence on observation in Madrasi, Patrol Chess etc. - Annan Chess: no more spurious en passant captures and duplicate castlings - Marguerite: no more duplicate moves - File Circe: Rex inclusive is now respected - Intelligent mode: stalemate solutions where the white king moves to block a black pawn are found again - Option MaxSolutions: is respected agian in hs stipulations - Circe Parrain: castling is now supported - Royal Dynasty: castling is now properly disabled while kings aren't royal - Twinning by piece change correctly adjusts the set of allowed promotees again - A=>B: can now be tested with neutral pieces - sstip: various stipulations previously unheard of work now
In addition, many combinations of fairy elements should now work better than before, e.g. - Singlebox Type1 and Magic pieces - Anticirce combined with many other conditions - Maximummer,Minimmumer etc. and many other fairy conditions and goals - Take&Make and many other fairy conditions - Cage Circe and neutral pieces - Eiffel Chess and neutral pieces - Madrasi and neutral pieces - ActuatedRevolvingBoard and neutral pieces - Mars Circe with royal pawns - EquipollentsCirce and Sentinelles - Circe and Koeko - Patrol Chess and paralysing pieces
Documentation ------------- Twin Mirror a8h1 corrected
Other changes ------------- Fairy effects are written more consistently: - effects are written in the order that they are executed - effects are written with less redundancy More elaborate handling of undecidable situations in carelessly specified fairy conditions Removed Andernach grasshopper (is just a HurdleColourChanging Grasshopper)
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You can download it for free FROM HERE.
Many thanks to whole Popeye team! |