Zillions+of+Games

a commercial general game playing Windows program developed by Jeff Mallett and Mark Lefler to play [|abstract strategy] [|board games] with [|perfect information] and up to 32 players, first released in 1998. Zillions of Games **2**, released in 2003, comes with 100 new features, able to enforce maximal capturing rules as used in some versions of Checkers, and is packed with 350 board games, puzzles, and variants, including chess and 60 chess variants. Zillions further supports randomness in games through a special, computer-controlled "random player" that chooses its moves randomly, which allows to simulate [|dice games].|| toc =Zillions Rules Language= The game rules are specified by the Zillons rules language, persistant in [|ASCII] readable Zillion rules files with the extension **zrf**, based on Lisp like [|S-expressions]: code format="scheme" (game (title "...")   (players ...) ; up to 32  (turn-order ... ) (board .... ) (piece ... ; up to 32 (moves ...) )  (board-setup ...)  (draw-condition ...)  (win-condition ...) ) ) (game ...) code Besides defining how pieces move, Zillions can define how pieces may be dropped. All piece and board graphics referred in the rule files, are required in Windows [|BMP format].
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=Selected Games=

Chess & Variants

 * Chess
 * Chinese Chess
 * Crazyhouse
 * Knightmate
 * Losing Chess
 * Shatranj
 * Shogi

Board Games

 * Arimaa
 * Breakthrough
 * Checkers
 * Clobber
 * Go
 * Hex
 * Kalah
 * Lines of Action
 * Reversi
 * Nine Men’s Morris

Puzzles

 * Eight Queens Problem
 * Knight's Tour

=See also=
 * Game Description Language
 * Games

=Publications=
 * Jeff Mallett (**2003**). //ZRF Language References//. [|pdf]
 * Ingo Althöfer (**2003**). //Computer-Aided Game Inventing//. [|Friedrich Schiller University of Jena], [|pdf]
 * Ingo Althöfer (**2004**). //[|Improved game play by multiple computer hints]//. [|Theoretical Computer Science], Vol. 313, No. 3

=Forum Posts= > [|Re: Zillions of Games is fantastic] by Ingo Althöfer, CCC, June 26, 2004
 * [|moderation:question about allowed discussions] by Uri Blass, CCC, June 26, 2004
 * [|Zillions of Games and WinBoard] by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, December 11, 2007

=External Links= > [|Zillions of Games - How Many Games?] > [|Zillions of Games - Free Games for Download] > [|Zillions of Games - 2358 Free Games for Download]
 * [|Zillions of Games - Unlimited Board Games & Puzzles]
 * [|Zillions of Games - Wikipedia]
 * [|Zillions of Games] from [|Chessvariants.org]
 * [|600 Zillions Games] by Karl Scherer
 * [|WinBoard Adapter for Zillions of Games] by Andreas Kaufmann
 * [|Galton Game] by Ingo Althöfer

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