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Chess and a Half. Game with extra leapers.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝sirius628 wrote on Sat, Oct 21, 2017 11:51 PM UTC:

💡📝sirius628 wrote on Thu, Oct 26, 2017 02:36 AM UTC:

Sorry for the confusion. Only the radial leapers can multi-capture. Queen castling is removed now, because it was honestly just changing for the sake of changing, and didn't improve the game at all. You didn't mention this, but King-to-Kraken promotion is also gone now, as it forced players to keep playing in positions that would normally be insufficient-material, but would allow a win through King promotion. I have changed the rules to force promotion of non-pawns. And finally, "not mostly not" was a simple error, thank you for pointing it out.


Diagram testing thread[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
sirius628 wrote on Fri, Oct 27, 2017 02:35 AM UTC:

The "almost identical variant" has the elephants move differently from your elephants, however.


Macadamia Shogi. Pieces promote on capture to multi-capturing monsters. (13x13, Cells: 169) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Fri, Nov 3, 2017 12:19 AM UTC:

The written description says that the capricorner can reach any square of its color on an empty board, but the move diagrams says that it cannot. Same with the hook mover.


Test for my new Game[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
sirius628 wrote on Sat, Nov 4, 2017 02:38 AM UTC:

Pieces promote by capturing a piece of equal or greater power. The goal is to capture both Jeweled Generals.


sirius628 wrote on Sat, Nov 4, 2017 03:18 PM UTC:

Pieces promote in the order of: Iron --> Copper --> Silver --> Gold --> Platinum --> Jeweled. Do you think that these problems could be solved by adding a leaper or rider? Another problem is that an iron reaching the back rank would be trapped. Currently, I solve that by saying that only the iron promotes on the back rank, and only to copper, but that seems to make the promotion optional, even though I want it to be mandatory.


sirius628 wrote on Sat, Nov 4, 2017 04:27 PM UTC:

True, but I included the platinum general because I wanted a clear intermediate step between the gold general and the jeweled general. A Phoenix or Kirin would be probably be slightly stronger than a jeweled general, due to it have two square moves. However, I could add a Phoenix/Kirin, pehaps even with the promotions to Queen or Lion!

It seems like this would solve the problem:

  1. Move the iron generals forward by one rank, giving more space for pieces.
  2. Add a promotable Pheonix/Kirin pair just in front of the Silvers.

However, this has no initial riders or oblique leapers. Oh well, there's always some problem with any variant.


MSaldress[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Sat, Nov 4, 2017 08:46 PM UTC:

"There was no Alfaerie Elephant-Wazir" Isn't there the chess with different armies Waffle, which moves as Elephant or Wazir?


Refusal Chess. Refuse your opponent to make certain moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Sat, Nov 11, 2017 05:04 PM UTC:

Sorry to be pedantic, but it's cache, not cash. To address your actual question, you flush the cache via Alt-F5.


Diagram testing thread[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
sirius628 wrote on Sat, Nov 11, 2017 08:14 PM UTC:

Kevin, I don't you understood what HG was saying. First, he was talking about a 10x8 board, and second, he meant that the first bishop was worth 350 cP, and the second was worth 400 cP, for a total of 750 cP, which would actually mean 375 cP each. (cP means centipawns).


Grand Tamerlane Chess. John Davis invented this variation of Mideast Chess. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
sirius628 wrote on Sun, Feb 17, 2019 12:42 AM UTC:

@HG Muller

This is Grand Tamerlane Chess, not Grand Chu Chess


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