Comments by lookingglass

I'm playing this for the first time today (on a personally-made program) and I like it so far (though I'm not sure if it's good enough for a "Good" rating...). Though I'm at this situation where the only possible move is to use the king to block the crown prince. Since the crown prince doesn't capture, it seems fair to assume that it does not give check either and it is thus legal to use the king to block the prince.

Edit: The black prince is one step from the final rank but white could actually deliver check (white couldn't do anything more to prevent the prince's advance for now). If white does give the check, should black respond to it or just push the prince and win?

In the variant: "moves along/across files" for the prince. Does that mean "along files and across ranks"? Cause this is a bit of contradiction and I see the prince piece as either a 2-square queen or a 2-square queen that cannot move horizontally in this variant. I'm hoping it's just a 2-square queen.

Anyway I like the basic form and the variant where there are multiple kings. Feels like playing sho shogi again.

I'm writing an article on this game but I'm not sure if links to it would be allowed.
I'll post a few extracts:
"... The elephant gained the power to move one square diagonally, allowing it to reach any square of the same colour it starts on, whereas the original elephant from Chaturanga could only reach a few squares on the entire 8 by 8 board.

The pieces have been carefully guarded so that the cannon is not able to take a piece after just a few moves without it being captured back.

Personally I haven’t had the chance to try this game out thoroughly yet, so I’m not sure how well it plays out, but just for the sake of the “East meets West” ideology, I think it is worth playing. I would possibly also add the silver from Japanese chess as the piece appears in Thai chess, Burmese chess as well, thus making it more “East”, since the only “Eastern-ness” of the game is only from the cannon, whereas the addition of the elephant piece represented a majority of the old chess forms, such as Kurierspiel (where the elephant still existed), Chaturanga and Shatranj."

Hmm it does seem pretty similar, though the covered area in Dragon Chess seem to be 3*3 whereas here it's only 3*2. Seems a bit weird that it states that the "dragon could not fly"... I wonder if Dragon chess actually copied from Sage chess since Sage chess is pretty old as well...

How about the clown and templar knight pieces? I find the clown to be an important piece that sets this game apart from other chess variants...