Western Chess and it's variants

[Kevin Thorn <kevin.thorn@valpo.edu>]

For those interested, I have made some improvements on the utility that 
converts a pbm ascii board to a graphical board.

http://kthorn.freeshell.org/pbm/index.php

The main improvement of interest to most, I suspect, is the additional 
support for a number of PBM western chess variants.  Currently this is 
limited to games where the board is rectangular.  Things should also be 
considered experimental at this stage. As always, feedback is very much 
appreciated.

Thanks for reading.  Long winded details follow, if you're interested.

Kevin


Sketchy Details
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Games that I _believe_ to work well:
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Chess, Amoeba, Avalanche, Capablanca, Dark Chess, Double Chess, Double Move 
Chess, Grand Chess, Quick Chess, Progressive Chess, Renaissance Chess, and 
Bughouse if only one board pasted at a time(duh).

Games not yet supported:
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Big Outer Chess, Chex, Omega Chess,

Games such as Capablanca, where new pieces are introduced, show those 
pieces in their ASCII form.  I have yet to create piece graphics for 
those.  If anyone feels like giving it a go, shoot(40x40, transparent 
gif).  Some testing of the above mentioned variants has been done in MSIE 
6, your mileage may very, depending on your browser.  One gotcha is that if 
there are not an even number of files or ranks, you *might* find that the 
squares are not the right colors.  You're dark squares might be light and 
the light ones dark.  Not a huge problem, I guess, but it is an issue.

Once again, any feedback is greatly appreciated, as I cannot possibly test 
all possibilites.