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A new version of Popeye - 4.63 released!

chess1(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
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New fairy conditions
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Circe Take&Make (Anti-Take&Make)
Magic square type 2
Marine Chess and Ultramarine Chess
SuperGuards
Wormholes

New fairy pieces
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Marine Knight
Marine Pawn
Marine Ship
Poseidon

Bug fixes
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- 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
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Twin Mirror a8h1 corrected

Other changes
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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! 

 

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