Well, Joe and I have been debating his 'disappearing Rooks' for a long time now. Truth be told, I have a bad habit of designing chess variants with only one Rook per side.
I am going to make two assumptions here which will cause serious problems with this project: [1] your 'linear inclusive compounds' are no more powerful than the classic shortrange pieces Q4, R4, B4 in the endgame and [2] Q4, R4, B4 are worth no more than 75 percent of Q, R, B. NOTE: as Joe has remarked elsewhere, shortrange pieces actually seem to work better on 100 squares than 64 squares, perhaps because there is a larger central area to deploy them in. Taking the Fabulous FIDEs against the Shatranjian Shooters, I would set up a 'hedgehog position' and trade off my Knights and Bishops. My opponent would probably want to trade off my Bishops, anyway. My patient maneuvering should eventually be rewarded by a won endgame.
Well, Joe and I have been debating his 'disappearing Rooks' for a long time now. Truth be told, I have a bad habit of designing chess variants with only one Rook per side.
I am going to make two assumptions here which will cause serious problems with this project: [1] your 'linear inclusive compounds' are no more powerful than the classic shortrange pieces Q4, R4, B4 in the endgame and [2] Q4, R4, B4 are worth no more than 75 percent of Q, R, B. NOTE: as Joe has remarked elsewhere, shortrange pieces actually seem to work better on 100 squares than 64 squares, perhaps because there is a larger central area to deploy them in. Taking the Fabulous FIDEs against the Shatranjian Shooters, I would set up a 'hedgehog position' and trade off my Knights and Bishops. My opponent would probably want to trade off my Bishops, anyway. My patient maneuvering should eventually be rewarded by a won endgame.