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Chess with Extended Castle. Standard chess with extended castle rule, effectuating greater opening variance (with zrf).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Daniel wrote on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 03:22 PM UTC:
Displacement Chess 2 already has extended castle which allows king to make 1-3 spaces towards the king. Additionally it reverses the king and queen for one side. Displacement Chess 2 offers much greater opening variance than the change you proposed.

The 1 space castle allows king to remain near the center but connects the rooks and keeps the rook on the center file.

Adjustments such as this change the game considerably and the effect cannot be fully investigated without a considerable number of play testing.

It seems to me that the goal is to have two sides castle on opposite sides. Just reversing the king and queen for one side will have that effect.