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36 <h3 class="section">11.2 Fairy-Max</h3>
38 <p>Fairy-Max is a derivative from the once World's smallest Chess program micro-Max,
39 which measures only about 100 lines of source code.
40 The main difference with micro-Max is that Fairy-Max loads its move-generator
41 tables from a file, so that the rules for piece movement can be easily configured
42 to implement unorthodox pieces.
43 Fairy-Max can therefore play a large number of variants, normal Chess being one of those.
44 In addition it plays Knightmate, Capablanca and Gothic Chess, Shatranj, Courier Chess,
45 Cylinder chess, Berolina Chess, while the user can easily define new variants.
46 It can be obtained from:
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