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2007-2008 Chess Variants Design Contest. Chess variant inventors gather round! We're doing it again! Exact nature of contest to be determined with YOUR help!![All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Aug 2, 2007 11:42 PM UTC:I really like a suggestion by Je Ju - a geographical variant. By geographical, I consider that to mean a variant where different positions on the board are different and have further significance (unlike Chess, where the only factor is how close a given square is to the center.) This theme would include a lot of possibilities for designers. Board squares (cells) could represent countries or other real-world settings, or fictional settings. Or, squares could be differentiated by other characteristics such as the type of geography (like a very unsuccessful design attempt of mine, Chess with Terrain.)