Croatian Chess is a collection of various chess variants, starting as a simple and natural enhancement to classical chess and growing ever more complex with each new variant.

Book version can be seen in a colophon (4th page), under Source section.
The most recent book version is:

Version: 20240511.050952

Large number is actually date and time of the last commit, converted to UTC for easier comparison.

Application and library versions can be seen in an application, using version command.
The latest versions are:

Application: 0.0.1.534:966+20240511.171740
Library: 0.0.1.534:966+20240511.171740

Versioning used is Natural Versioning 1.2, with meta data containing the same format as the book version.

To read the book, click download PDF file.

To compile book yourself, you'll need to generate images, and then compile text and those images into PDF file.

To make images used in the book, install these:

• Python 3 (3.8.5)
• pycairo (1.18.2)
• GTK+ cairo (1.16.0)

Versions in brackets are those I was using, newer versions also work.
Older versions should work, since nothing too fancy was used from those dependencies.

To compile book itself into PDF, you'll need minimal LaTeX installation, with following packages:

• inputenc
• charter
• helvet
• geometry
• graphicx
• wrapfig
• hyperref
• multirow
• booktabs
• alltt

First, clone repository with:

git clone https://github.com/mmlacak/crochess.git

Or, you could just unpack downloaded zip file into a folder.

Open terminal in folder where you've cloned/unzipped repository, and type:

./gfx.sh

This will generate all the images used in the book.

Next, compile PDF file:

./pdf.sh

If everything goes well, the new book will be created under book folder.

Now that you have PDF book, just copy it over to other PC, tablet, phone, ...

• Mario Mlačak - Initial work - mmlacak

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This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version, see LICENSING, COPYING files in root folder for details.

The book is published as Public Domain work, under CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, see LICENSING, COPYING files in book folder for details.

• Dennis R.
• Ken T.
• Simon P. J.
• Alessandro M.
• Tomaso G. A.
• O. Claude M.
• and many, many others

Thank you all!

A collection of songs for your listening pleasure while reading the book:

• Main theme: Christopher Tin - Sogno di Volare ("The Dream of Flight")
• Introduction: Renaissance - Wanderer
• Prerequisites: Johann Sebastian Bach - Bouree In E Minor
• Classical Chess: Radetzky Marsch [Austrian march]
• Croatian Ties: Ride of the Valkyries (by Wagner)
• Mayan Ascendancy: Carl Orff - O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana
• Age of Aquarius: Handel - La Réjouissance
• Miranda’s veil: Vangelis - La petite fille de la mer
• Nineteen: L'Achéron - Muy Linda, Anthony Holborne
• Hemera’s Dawn: Tiësto - Elements Of Life (Live In Copenhagen)
• Tamoanchan Revisited: The Atlantics - Adventures In Paradise
• Conquest of Tlalocan: The Ecstasy of Gold - Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
• Discovery: The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side)
• One: Vangelis - L'enfant
• Outro: Chris Christodoulou - Coalescence | Risk of Rain (2013)

YouTube playlist featuring all listed songs: Croatian Chess soundtrack.

Outtakes:

• Vivaldi - Chamber Concerto in D Minor, RV 96: I. Allegro ¹
• Albinoni - Oboe Concerto #2 in D Minor Op. 9
• Mozart Lacrimosa
• Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene, Pt. 4
• The Tornados - Telstar
• La bourrée d'Avignon - Philidor (Ens. Le Banquet du Roy)
• Andreas Waldetoft - To The Ends of the Galaxy
• A. Marcello - Oboe Concerto in d minor (Marcel Ponseele, baroque oboe / Il Gardellino)

YouTube playlist featuring all listed songs + outtakes: Croatian chess soundtrack + outtakes.