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Bodyguard Chess. A 9x9 variant, with a Bodyguard and two Kwaggas per side (zrf available).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝M Winther wrote on Sun, Nov 26, 2006 07:29 AM UTC:
Charles, they are actually on the diagram (striped horses).
I strongly suspect that it's possible, in any big-board variant, to add
Kwaggas in exchange for the knights. In some cases the game might become
more attractive while the Kwagga seems always to have the same value, more
or less, as a bishop. This means that they can be exchanged. Sometimes the
knight seems to play a retiring role. Adding Kwaggas would change this. I
will probably add Kwaggas to Mastodon Chess. I wonder how this extinct
species would fare in all those popular Capablanca variants. /Mats