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Swap Chess. A move can consist of a series of pieces swapping places. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝João Neto wrote on Tue, Jan 3, 2006 07:01 PM UTC:

>did you consider the basic one-step swap which I described in Switching
>Chess? 

To be honest, I don't remember :-) But I guess not, usually I tend to
create faster games that FIDE chess, and by allowing just one move per
turn (which might be a swap) my intuition tells me that it would be harder
to mate a swapping king (of course, I may be wrong). Anyway, I don't
recall ever tried the rules of Switching Chess on my chess ruminations.

>I described Switching Chess before I knew of Swap Chess or Balanced Swap

>Chess, however, I later found an applet by Ed Friedlander called Swap
>Chess 1 that is almost identical to Switching Chess and predated it, 
>yet it is not attributed to you. 

I suppose Ed Friedlander read about swap chess here at chessvariants.org.
He has applets of other games of mine (like magnetic or capture-the-flag
chess). I think that applet implements Balanced Swap Chess.

>I guess I am not sure about the originality of Switching Chess vis-a-vis
>Swap Chess.

This seems a case of convergent invention. The idea is too simple and will
probably be 'found' many other times. Eventually, it was already invented
before 1998.

Cheers,