Rich Hutnik wrote on Mon, Apr 7, 2008 10:33 PM UTC:
My take on Beyond Chess, if players at the start of the game are able to
follow those rules, and they aren't stopped, then doesn't that represent
merely one rule in effect? This means the rules itself are still bound,
with Beyond Chess merely adding one new rule. Yes, this rule adds a lot
of depth to the game, but it is still one rule. Difference would be the
slide before you move, slide after you move, transport tile elsewhere,
having tiles disappear, etc... Different starting configurations would
each be considered a different rule. But the sliding a tile after a move,
to me, looks like a mutator, and thus one rule.
Now, let's say you start restricting when this sliding can take effect,
and to what degree, that that would add more rules. The idea here isn't
just asking if the decision tree can be unlimited, but the RULES governing
the decision tree is unlimited.
