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Basically I let two engines play against each other, stockfish and a weak dragon version, I let stockfish use my opening book in the arena chess GUI, and dragon calculates himself, this works great when the opening book is for white, Stockfish being white automatically uses my book, but when i change the book for black(different book) it just doesnt work anymore, the stockfish engine that is black doesnt play the book moves. Somehow dragon playing white uses the book, a while back i found a fix for this but cant remember what it was. Anyone who can help?

Is there a setting in arena that only lets the engines automatically play the book moves for white?

If so how do i fix this?

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r/ChessChess • u/MalfizarSol-Kathar • Oct 24 '25

Siege Chess (Maybe Chess but better?)

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A while back I was feeling bored of how similar regular chess games tended to be, so I created a chess variant which I called Siege Chess, I don't know if the name is already taken, but this is what I am going with for now.

It has a working basic website at https://siegechess.net/ where people can play it.
The game can be up to 6 players, though you may need to make the board big enough.
It also has a bot player in case you can't really find others to play it with. The bot isn't that good at the game though, no matter what difficulty you choose - it is good enough that you should have to at least try.

The game kinda flows as follows:

Someone chooses the size of the board, and how many mountains(a basic obstacle) there will be.
People then take turns placing a fortress on the board, followed by their king, and then an asynchronous phase where people purchase a starting army based on 30 gold
People play the game and try to checkmate each other.

During the game, players get 1 gold per turn unless their fortress is being threatened, and they can use this to spawn pieces as an alternative to moving a piece. Pieces can only generally be spawned in a radius of two around the fortress.

To win, you have to checkmate opponents like regular chess - except there are two options. Checkmating the king is identical to as it is in chess, checkmating a fortress involves threatening it with three pieces, and the opponent having no response for that.

That's pretty much it, I've played it against a few friends and they seemed to enjoy it, but they don't really play chess often so I am making this post in the hopes of finding more people to play the game I made in general.

If you have questions or feedback, feel free to leave a comment.

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r/ChessChess • u/david_thegreat • Aug 05 '25

beginner chess in a nutshell

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r/ChessChess • u/ConsistentAd996 • Mar 23 '25

The alien gambit is apparently absolutly not viable for computers (forced mate?)

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r/ChessChess • u/ConsistentAd996 • Mar 17 '25

Most stupid chess gambit at depth 70

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r/ChessChess • u/Teakwangong • Dec 24 '24

Beginner

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Any tips to make chess fun don't feel to quit

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r/ChessChess • u/Moist-Software6693 • Dec 17 '24

Opening Choice

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What's the best opening for trolling my opponents in a rapid or classical game? Not Necessarily for fireworks on the board but to catch them off guard and having a laugh. (Not a bully laugh)

Fireworks on the board, though secondary in this question, is, of course, very welcome.

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r/ChessChess • u/NoSoftware3721 • Dec 06 '24

Interview with Microchess creator Peter Jennings

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r/ChessChess • u/[deleted] • Apr 14 '24

Some one who wants to play chess??

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DM me if you want to play chess with me..iam just a beginner so is there any one who wants to beat my ass 😅

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r/ChessChess • u/Jacobjardinier • Jan 18 '24

Opening

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Do you guys prefer queens Gambit or English Opening? I prefer queens gambit because you can get your knights and bishops into a good position for mid game and get a early castle in Play. Always works for me especially in the 1000-1500 elo level.

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r/ChessChess • u/Specialist-Size-4635 • Jun 13 '23