fairymax: fairymax (an AI for playing user-defined Chess variants) fairymax: fairymax: Fairy-Max is an AI, also called 'engine', for playing Chess variants. fairymax: It is free open-source software. It was created for the purpose of fairymax: empirically evaluating fairy pieces, by allowing those to participate fairymax: amongst orthodox Chess pieces in Chess games aimed at checkmating an fairymax: opponent royal piece. It searches ahead like the FIDE-Chess engine fairymax: from which it was derived by generating moves and trying them out on fairymax: the internal board. Fairy-Max is only an AI. It does not provide any fairymax: graphics to display the position of the game it is playing, but only fairymax: relays the moves as text.