This game gets its name from the effort to pinpoint the best Capablanca Random Chess variant out of the 12,000+ unique starting arrays recognized by its inventor Reinhard Scharnagl and furthermore, out of the 48 select starting arrays recognized by Samuel Trenholme and Derek Nalls. In my opinion, this effort was successfully although Embassy Chess by Kevin Hill is another CRC variants discovered to be of comparably high quality. Please see the Opti Chess web site for details about the purpose and design features of this CRC variant for the Zillions Of Games program.
There are variants with 5 types of pawns: 2-step pawns (standard), 1-step pawns, ortho pawns, lateral pawns and horizon pawns (convertible to 3-direction advance pawns).
There are variants with 2 types of move orders: white-black (standard) and white-black-black-white.
There are 40 variants total distributed in 2 game rules files (*.zrf). The opti-no.zrf is for variants without self-captures allowed. The opti-yes.zrf is for variants with self-captures allowed.
I welcome thoughtful, constructive correspondence from anyone.
Supreme thanks to the principal architects of the Zillions program for making all dreams possible.
OmegaMan
Opti Chess
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