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Fearsome Chess. Fear is the main rule. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Florin Lupusoru wrote on Sun, Feb 25 05:06 PM UTC:

This game is almost ready. I hope you gonna like it. 


💡📝Florin Lupusoru wrote on Mon, Feb 26 06:39 AM UTC:

I wonder if this game needs some kind of "Universal Predator"  that could break the "Fear Hierarchy". Still thinking about it. 


Thomas wrote on Mon, Feb 26 12:34 PM UTC:

I take it that a hunter can't be adjacent to an opponent's hunter, thus can never capture another hunter. But hunters are natural predators of other hunters. Does that mean that you don't control a red square by a hunter if the opponent still has a hunter?

Do you control a red square by, say, a cat when the opponent has no cat and no dog but has a mouse that may later promote to cat or dog?


💡📝Florin Lupusoru wrote on Mon, Feb 26 03:35 PM UTC in reply to Thomas from 12:34 PM:

I take it that a hunter can't be adjacent to an opponent's hunter, thus can never capture another hunter. But hunters are natural predators of other hunters. Does that mean that you don't control a red square by a hunter if the opponent still has a hunter?

Hunters are the only exception, as I mentioned in the Rules. But they can't hold a red square if there are other Hunters on the board.

Do you control a red square by, say, a cat when the opponent has no cat and no dog but has a mouse that may later promote to cat or dog?

Yes, if that Mouse can be blocked and doesn't promote. 


A. M. DeWitt wrote on Fri, Mar 1 12:07 AM UTC:
  • If these pieces still have natural predators on the board but they are unable to reach these red squares

It feels like there is something missing here.


💡📝Florin Lupusoru wrote on Fri, Mar 1 03:15 AM UTC in reply to A. M. DeWitt from 12:07 AM:
  • If these pieces still have natural predators on the board but they are unable to reach these red squares

It feels like there is something missing here.

Pieces can be blocked from reaching a certain square, don't they? Or, in the case of a Bishop of a different colour they will be unable to reach that square. 


A. M. DeWitt wrote on Sat, Mar 2 02:13 AM UTC in reply to Florin Lupusoru from Fri Mar 1 03:15 AM:

Pieces can be blocked from reaching a certain square, don't they?

Being blocked doesn't necessarily mean that a piece is unable to reach a square.

Now that I think about it, I guess the inability to reach a square part refers to the predators, and not the moving piece.


💡📝Florin Lupusoru wrote on Sun, Mar 3 02:17 AM UTC in reply to A. M. DeWitt from Sat Mar 2 02:13 AM:

Pieces can be blocked from reaching a certain square, don't they?

Being blocked doesn't necessarily mean that a piece is unable to reach a square.

Now that I think about it, I guess the inability to reach a square part refers to the predators, and not the moving piece.

It looks like everything is solved. This page is ready. 


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