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diff --git a/data/fmax.ini b/data/fmax.ini
index 5c71870..ea064e8 100644
--- a/data/fmax.ini
+++ b/data/fmax.ini
@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ Line 1:     Board size (files x ranks). Ranks must currently still be 8.
 Line 2:     initial setup of white pieces on back rank
 Line 3:     initial setup of black pieces on back rank
 Line 4-18:  Description of piece types that can occur in the variant
+This can be followed by some optional info to be sent to GUI when it
+selects the variant, e.g. to tell it how some non-standard pieces move.
 
 There can be upto 15 piece types per variant, numbered 1 to 15.
 Numbers 1 and 2 are considered Pawns for white and black, respectively,
@@ -158,6 +160,11 @@ If you don't want that, remove the castling moves from the King description.
 If the castling initiator does not start in a central file, the results are 
 currently undefined.
 
+The variant name can be suffixed with some info to be sent to the GUI
+as a 'setup' command, behind a # character. In particular the piece-
+to-character table to define which symbols the GUI should use for
+the various pieces, and (after another #) the 'parent' variant.
+
 Most variant definitions can be seen at the end of this file.
 Other lines in this file (i.e. those not recognized as belonging to a
 variant description) are ignored. They can be used for comments.