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Game Courier Tournament #4: An Introductory Semi-Potluck. A tournament to feature games good for introducing people to Chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Vitya Makov wrote on Sat, Dec 5, 2009 09:11 AM UTC:

'Hexagonal Chess has the advantage that
hexagonal variants are more common and more popular than circular variants.'

Yes, but some people have problem with piece moving on hex board. I had this problem with knights. Also Hex Bishop is problematic piece. Circular Chess is more simple and I think two fronts of attack gives to this game interesting possibilities.

'That leaves Knightmate, which may at least be a good introduction to having a royal
piece that is not a King.'

All variants are good. But is knightmate better than Crazyhouse? I don't think so. By playing Crazyhouse you can learn to drop.