3 shogivar - Program to play shogi variants
13 B<shogivar> is a stand-alone program that allows you to play many different
14 shogi variants against yourself (using it as an electronic shogi board),
15 or against a computer opponent. It isn't a very strong opponent; you can
16 choose between the levels Weak and LessWeak.
18 ShogiVar comes with its own built-in help menus for explaining the rules
19 of the various variants, and diagrams on how the pieces move there. It
20 saves some of its configuration settings in the file .shogivarrc in the
21 current directory, and tries to load them from there on later runs.
23 ShogiVar was written in Visual Basic in 1998 by Steve Evans, who released
24 it later under the GNU Public License. H.G. Muller ported the program in
25 2014 to Linux, after translating it to C, making use of code from the
31 Report bugs and other feedback on: http://forum.81squareuniverse.com
33 Screeshots: http://hgm.nubati.net/ShogiVar
35 Descriptions of shogi variants: http://www.chessvariants.org
37 XBoard shogi variants: http://hgm.nubati.net/ShogiVars
42 Steve Evans (original ShogiVar author).
44 H.G.Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl> (GTK port).
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