Comments by Claudio Martins Jaguaribe

It looks nice to me, but two more bishops and another knight seems too
much.

So, I suggest this: R; Cr; N; B; Cb; Co; K; Q; P; Cb; B; N; Cr; R.

In this way:
Cb= Crowned Bishop, moves like a Bishop or a King (Dragon Horse, Crowned
Rook(Cr) = Dragon King);
P= Prince, moves like an Archbishop (Bishop + Kinight) (the Concubine (Co)
moves like a Chancellor (Rook + Knight))

This looks like a better way to use the board.

I have a problem with the eggs and the Queen.

The eggs seem the perfect piece, because it's kind of too hard to beat
it.

The Queen uses the symbol of the Knightrider+Queen. A very powerful piece
to never goes in play. In some movies it had a major role, like in the
movie 2 when Ripley fights her with a battlesuit.

How, without a piece capabe to capture witout never coming near the eggs
and the Queen, can the Predators win?

Thank´s, but looks like to me that the Duke, by simple analisys, would come
to the existence of the Archbishop, the Centaur and the Amazon, just by
adding the Knight move to the Bishop, King and Queen, as he did to get the
Chancellor (Concubine).

Adding the moves of the King to the Bishop and Knight, he would come to
the Dragon Horse (Crowned Bishop) and to the Centaur (a Crowned Knight, to
keep the line of names of the Duke)(again), as he did to the Rook to get
the Dragon King (Crowned Rook). Add King moves to a Queen is useless.

So, it´s a mistery to me why he didn't used that pieces.

I like it!

The idea of use a 10x10 board is very nice and the array of the pieces is
very ellegant.

I just have a few questions:

How did you got this piece/board ratio?

You said that the optimum number would be 25, why not use 26 (perhaps with
camels or knightriders), instead of 24, or a 2 cell piece (wich I'm still
thinking if it's really worth)?

Thank´s!

To me, a newcomer, feel's very nice to see a recognition of my thoughts.
After all, all new comers believe that: 'everything was said before'.

And it helps me to think a lot more; and helps in a creative process.

I can get it right in the great picture, lots of thoughts. But in the
microscope...

Anyway.

Thank´s a lot! And, coming from a guy with a good name in the site, it
menas a lot to me.

Thank´s!

I would like to see a move example of the archer, or, is he a dabbabah?
Agincourt= Azincourt? If that's so, wouldnt it be nice to be a unequal
army variant?

A big french side vs a better english side? I belive that the
buypointchess and the pick up your team chess would give you help.

Pints to U!!

I'll try it in wood, and with a wooden open frame to keep table pieces
togheter. So, every time I need a board, I cut a frame and put the table
pieces inside.

This coment is related to this shogi pieces coment:

http://www.chessvariants.org/d.photo/symshogi/index.html

This last coment is related to this craft CV board:

http://www.chessvariants.org/crafts.dir/construction-set.html

I liked it.

But the shifter lools like useless. I would change it for a counter-faerie
(moves like a rook and captures like a bishop). I also loved some demons
begin in the middle of the board.

Best 4UAll!

This game, I don't know why, keeps me awake repeating its name in my mind,
on and on.

Just loved it!

Fegus, beware... You are too close from the truth... The Grail... The Holy
Blood! I guess uoy saw The Da Vinci Code in the movies, if you look well,
you'll see at Sir Ian McKellen's house a chess set in the studio where
they explain about the plot. A very nice chess set, by the way.

Just today I was thinking if we had hit a wall in piece development. What
was left to be done?

Never crossed my mind a shortrange piece, and variations about it.

Thanks a lot!

I do even believe that part of the system could be used to create
longrange pieces as well. Actually I do believe that its a perfect guide
to create pieces no matter the range.

Three pieces that crossed my mind in this weekend was shortrange, but, I
had then just stored to see if someone already created and used. They are
combinations of man (Ferz + Wazir)[m] with the Alfil [A], the Dabbabah [D]
and the Alibaba [Ab]. As the FAD and the champion, from Omega Chess, I've
felt that they are 'shogiesque', as the: flying dragon, kirin, phoenix
(waffle), and the violent ox. My pieces are man+Alfil [mA], man+Dabbabah
[mD] and man+Alibaba [mAb].

Thanks a lot again!

I have a question about castling: If a hook is hurled, and captures a
piece, and then, is hurled back it stills keeps the castling possibility?
(remember, the capture happend when the rook landed in the destination
square). Does this ability considerated to calculate the value of the
piece? After all increases the value of other pieces significantly. Or the
short movement and the impossibility to take other pieces is to balance
it?

Thanks.

Does the hurling pieces have a page explaining and listing them? After all
is a growing family.

Best!

I loved it!

To me, it is the birth oif a new kind of variant, that can be called
template variant, or meta-variant, where the rules are devised and applied
to another variant.

Why not a hexagonal variation of crazyhouse/bughouse?

I believe it is one of the most popular ways the things will turn to be in
the CV universe.

Best!

It's a question, not a response.

When dealing with pieces that occupies more than one square, like the dev,
how do you create the piece, a normal piece or a big one?

Thanks.

Sam.

Another way to split the knight is left/right. Seems a better piece than a backward knight and is a great piece ih a game where pieces can begin in the middle of the board.

'Right Knight'
...X.
....X
..K..
....X
...X.

'Left Knight'
.X...
X....
..K..
X....
.X...

One aspect about proliferation that bothers me is that people are creating
chess variants, shogi, etc, using pieces and not adding a single one to
the piececlopedia.

When the last entry was written?

The same piece gets lots of names, and not for the sake of the variation
theme, just because the author thougt about it and didn't found a similar
in the main research instrument of the site. Sometime this variation is created with the sole purpose to presente the 'new cool piece' created by the author, who had the genuine belief that piece was a brand new one, after all he looked at the piececlopedia and found nothing like it!

I trully believe that, as I do, lots of people have their personal
piececlopedia; no matter the notation used to translate the movement.

What people doesn't think about is to unify the names of the pieces to
keep the first name the official. If someone needs to rename it for the
sake of the theme, ok, the descripition would be easier, something like:
the cat= man.

And, if a new piece is added, just take the time to write about it in the
piececlopedia, even a piece that you know that isn't yours but you are
the first to give credit to the author. Believe me, he would love to see
the acknowledgement of his work and people who follow you would thank you
just because you took the time to make their work easier.

To me,a person that loves the harmony of the movement of the pieces, their ballet on the board, the piececlopedia is a vital instument of research.

Please people, think about it and let's give the pieclopedia the boom that
it deserves.

Hugs!!