Re: [Gnushogi-devel] gnushogi xboard support

[Yann Dirson]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:14:50AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > In Shokidoki I don't really change the size of the board, but just use a
> > smaller part of it. I used a board with a rim of 'edge guards' around it
> > that made off-board squares inaccessible, and just put two more rings of
> > edge guards inside the 9x9 area. Note that this also gets the promotion
> > zone right for mini-Shogi. I don't know if a similar thing could be done
> > with GNU Shogi; I never looked at its data structures.
> 
> It's quite similar indeed, that could work, and avoid to change things
> like direc and max_steps - good point.

On second thought, it is only that simple for odd board sizes, for
eg. Judkins Shogi it would imply asymetric promotion zones - but may
still be doable, didn't check.