Comments by deslock

I believe in an intermediate position...

The Queen movement is corolary to th Rook and Bishop movements, just look to a board. But it still have a aesthetic beauty. After all they are straight lines in a checkered board.

I don't think that the Knight have a beautiful movement, to me is rather weird and kind of cheating the leap and his bent path. That's why the Chancellor, the Archbishop and tha Amazon don't come to mind so easy.

The real intuitive chess would have no Knights, perhaps 2 more Bishops, and MAYBE another Queen. No pawns but short range pieces, like Wazir, Ferz and man (a kind of Alapo).

So, both of you are kind of right and wrong.

Dear Mr. Gillman.

A N+Q would be a Sherazade?

After all... Alfil + Dabbabah= Alibaba...

Vitya.

As I said, I don't like leapers, because, to me, chess is a blocking game. But, if you see chess as a war game, you can think of leapers as a kind of artillery, firing behind the enemy line...

As for pawns, I have a softspot for pawns, all kinds, and for hunters (pieces that move and capture in diferent ways). I even looked for a variant where the pawns was in the first line, protected by the other pieces.

If I understood it right, and I think I did, the sissa can move foward and then backward, or vice-versa.

I'm not very fond of it, sorry. So, I'd like you to think about quarter and half sissa.

quarter-sissa can make n(W)n(F), but only foward, another quarter-sissa can make, foward only, n(F)n(W).

The half-sissa can make either move of the quarte sissa above, i.e., n(W)n(F) or n(F)n(W).

Hugs.

Charles:

I don't know if it's just me or everyonelse, but all the text, is compressed in the left side of my screen.

thk's.

Couldn't we get a better name for the (0,3), (3,3), (0,4) and (4,4) leapers?

I'm not very fond of these names...

Tha name lancer, C.G. uses charolais, seems nice.

Kisses!

Charles:

Sorry to be such a pain in the neck, but again most of the text is compressed in the left side...

From after the grafics of setup to ''Shogi physical piece...' everithing between these points is compressed.

Thanks!

Sorry Charles.

I don't see the Voyager Chess does it have another name or the link is wrong?

Hugs

Dear friends:

In a sleepless night I've got with some pieces and variants.

Here they go:

1- Thinking about snippers I've thought about 4 pieces, 2 lame and 2 kind
of ok:

A- Lames- 1- moves as a rook and captures as a Wazir; 2- moves as a Rook
and captures as a Ferz (the reverse in both is ok);

B- Kind of Ok- 1- moves as a Wazir and captures as a Rook; 2- moves as a
Ferz and captures as a Rook (again, both reverses are ok).


2- The variants:

A- Bizarro vs. Fide Chess- Bizarro can be played as a stand alone variant,
but, I devised as a battle with FIDE.
As the Superman (tm) character, the Bizzarro chess is a reverse of the
FIDE's. Blacks go first, a black square must be at the right side of the
board, white king in the white cell. All the pieces are reversed, but the
ojectivre is the same, capture the enemy's king, one.
Pawns are Arabic spears- moves as foward Rooks and captures as foward
Bishops,
Rooks are Wazires,
Knights are Grand Masters (see below),
Bishops are Ferzes,
Queens are Men,
Kings are King Battlers (see below).

There's castling, and AS promotion (see below), and two special moves,
capture by acident and world change.

The game must be played like this: while white is making its move black is
making theirs, after, they change places, whites goes to Bizarros and
blacks to FIDE's.

Grand Masters- Grand Masters (name taken from the highest knight rank in
religious orders) are similar to knightriders, but they do a single jump,
not a sequence. So, a Gran Master at a1 can jump to any of these cells: b3,
c5, d7, c2,e3, or g4.

King Battlers- Kings that moves as Queens.

A piece can ever change with its conterpart (OBS: Bishops and Ferzes can
only change with the same color, i.e., white with white and black with
black), the player moves the piece from one board to other and vice versa.
If the piece is captured in the oposite board, so the other piece is locked
in the board where it is.

As the game is played in double blind, is possible to a player decide to
move a piece to a cell and when he gets there, the piece is taken, he takes
the oposite piece and is locked. Ex.: Black decides to move his Roook from
e3 to A5, but whites takes the Wazir at A5, when the Rooks gets to A% it
takes the white piece and is locked.

The promotion of AS is just like pawns, and, as pawns they can be replaced
for any piece of either world, except the Kings. They can't change boards
when are promoted. They promote and in the next round they change boards.

The idea to move a piece to a weaker board seems like power play, but, must
of it is lost in the need to loose a move to do it.

B- Chess on steroyds- Replace the pawns for Arabic Spears, the knights for
grand masters and the King for King Battler.

C- Anemic chess- replace the rooks for wazires, the bishops for ferzes and
the queen for a man.

D- Antimatter chess- Just like FIDE's, but when a piece is captured for
one of its own (e.g. knight x knight) both pieces are removed form the
board.


What do you think?

Hugs!

To me,a piece, or a chess variant, is just like a music note, a thing tha
only the masters can devise, but, after that, everyone can use it. Imagine
if only Da Vinci could use the 3d perspective.... He was the first one to
notice this relation. If you think a chessvariant as a closed work,
where's the progress?

Whe are a community to share, not to get at home plotting and scheming...
Fearing tha the guy next door can steal your new cool idea!

Hugs.

Look to me that a twofold rook exists in two kinds:

1- A a1a2 rook that is twofold when moving N-S, but singleton when moving E-W;

2- A a1b1 rook that is twofold when moving E-W, but singleton when moving N-S.

Am I right? Or the twofold rook is a1a2b1b2 piece, like the dev.

Hugs.

Dear Charles:

I want to know if there are 3 pieces, and in what articles can I find then:

i- Orthogonal Saint (Rook + ...);

ii- Goldfearful (stepping Dabbabah+ foFerz)

iii- Supercross.

Thanks.

Thanks Joe!

I've been thinking about a Godzilla/Cloverfield variation, a monster x an army (Elephant Hunt is the general idea). But, as in Cloverfield, the monster can leva 'fleas' that fight the army.

hugs.

What about a giant man, at least? After all, is a missing compund between
the two other giants...

Hugs.

Dear Mr. Gilman:

I've been looking in your articles for alternative names for the commuter, the fourleaper, and their compound, as for the tripper, the threeleaper and their compound. Where can I find?

Besides that I don't know if you are familiar with the sniper named fusilier (moves Wazir, captures Ferz), do you have an article on snipers? Do you have a name for the 'anti-fusilier' and others?

I would like to talk to you about the concept of base movers and templates (I use the term base mover to avoid confusion with the atoms). If you think it is ok, tell me or send me a mail.

Thanks.

And, for portuguese is more than ok, it's perfect.
I'm brazilian/postuguese descendant and I know the diferences that the table points in acent.

Dear George, if I may:

I've just felt great to see that you apreciate my ideas.

About the lame word, I'm a brazilian, so, sometimes, I'm betrayed by
translation, among other things.

HUgs.

By the way. Howdo I do to post my works and get the purple(?, I'm a litle colorblind) squre with a white m?

Hugs.

Sorry, replace the bishops with ferzes.

Hugs.