Hello world

A little over two years ago, I started working on a chess variant I call Gargantua. My initial idea was to add a new piece (a gargantua) which could move like a knight, but had the additional ability to make bigger hops. A knight can hop to any square that is two squares away from its current square vertically and one square horizontally, or one square vertically and two squares horizontally. I decided that a gargantua can do the same, but can also hop to any square that is three squares away from its current square vertically and two squares horizontally, or two squares vertically and three squares horizontally. At first I decided to use a 10x10 board, where each player got two gargantuas, located at the corners of the player's back rank. I embedded an inner 8x8 board inside the 10x10 board which had all the other pieces in the standard chess configuration. Here's what my initial board looked like at the start of a game:

 I hadn't created bitmaps for the gargantuas yet, so I reused the knight bitmaps in different colors to represent them.