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Take Oo Ninnin. A Smess-like game vaguely similar to Shogi. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Jan 10, 2009 03:00 AM UTC:
As I mentioned when I brought up the subject of immobilization, any non-King piece will get immobilized on the King's origin square. So Kings are not the only pieces that can be immobilized, and it does not favor offense as much as it would if only Kings were affected. However, pieces on the offense do have more choices of movement than pieces moved to defend the King. So it will be easier to force defending pieces to one of the arrowless squares than to force attacking pieces there. It may work out, but it is something that should be kept in mind while playtesting.