supports: Alice Chess, Almost Chess, Archchess, Berolina Chess, Bird's Chess, Capablanca Chess and its variants, Carrera's Chess, Chess480, Chess and a Half, Chess with Different Armies, Courier Chess, Cylindrical Chess, Diagonal Chess, Diamond Chess, Doublemove chess, Embassy Chess, Eurasian Chess, Extinction Chess, Fischer Random Chess (Chess960), Great Chess, Great Shatranj, Grand Chess, Grotesque Chess, Janus Chess, Kinglet, Ladorean Chess, Legan's Game, Los Alamos Chess, Makruk, Omega Chess, Opulent Chess, Roman Chess, Royal Court, Shatranj, Shatranj Kamil, Sosarian Chess, Switching Chess, TenCubed Chess, Three Checks Chess, and more infamous variants. Since ChessV can be programmed to play additional variants, here are a few examples: Almost Chess, Enep, Butterfly Chess, Nightrider chess and Janus Kamil. Syntax ChessV code is saved as the extension ".cvc" (ChessV Code). Its syntax is reasonably similar to C#. The scripting language is mostly stable, but creating new rules for new pieces is not supported yet. Here is an example of "Almost Chess" in .cvc code: Game 'Almost Chess' : Chess { Invented = "1977"; InventedBy = "Ralph Betza"; AddPieceTypes { Queen.Enabled = false; AddPieceType( Chancellor, "Chancellor", "C", 900, 925 ); } SetGameVariables { Array = "rnbckbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBCKBNR"; PromotionTypes = "CRNB"; } } Competitions ChessV software won third place in a 2004 Gothic Chess Computer World Championship. See also Chess engine Computer chess Fairy-Max List of chess software References External links ChessV download page site about Chess Variants, mentions ChessV in several articles Chess software Chess variants Free chess software Windows games Windows-only free software