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Bland Chess. Chess with no diagonal moves. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Joe Joyce wrote on Fri, Oct 5, 2007 06:58 PM UTC:
Hey, Joshua. A little too bland for you? Well, there's historical precedent in non-moving pieces - see Gary Gifford's Pillars of Medusa. His other pieces worked okay, though. 
Could I propose Blander Chess, where the orthogonal move is not allowed? Pawns would not be able to move except to capture. Rooks and knights, not having a diagonal move, would be stationary. And then there's Blandest Chess, where only leapers may move. We could call that 'The Four Knights Game'. Oh, thinking about the possible moves, I have the last two names [Blander and Blandest] the wrong way around. 
Is this too modest a variant? Maybe.