'Mirari, looks like you not a beginner in chess variants. :)'
I guess not :) During the past year, me and my irl chess playing partner have tried up towards a hundred different variants, many of them from these pages.
'Mirari, am I right that Amazon Chess is played at BrainKing?'
Yes, you are correct, and I do not find Amazon chess a very good variant. The reason is that it is too easy to force the amazons to get traded off early on, and then you find yourself playing what amounts to a standard chess position with queens traded off.
In my very limited experience with Gustav III's chess, this is not the case there, for three reasons:
*/ The amazons start out in the extra corner squares, they are much less exposed to early attacks by opposing amazons.
*/ You have two of them - so it is not enough to trade off just one pair to get rid off them.
*/ You still have the normal Queen in the normal spot, which leads to threats to trade a queen for an amazon.
Also, even if both pairs get traded off, one is at least still not, due to the extra corner squares, reduced to playing a standard chess position.
'Mirari, looks like you not a beginner in chess variants. :)'
I guess not :) During the past year, me and my irl chess playing partner have tried up towards a hundred different variants, many of them from these pages.
'Mirari, am I right that Amazon Chess is played at BrainKing?'
Yes, you are correct, and I do not find Amazon chess a very good variant. The reason is that it is too easy to force the amazons to get traded off early on, and then you find yourself playing what amounts to a standard chess position with queens traded off.
In my very limited experience with Gustav III's chess, this is not the case there, for three reasons:
*/ The amazons start out in the extra corner squares, they are much less exposed to early attacks by opposing amazons.
*/ You have two of them - so it is not enough to trade off just one pair to get rid off them.
*/ You still have the normal Queen in the normal spot, which leads to threats to trade a queen for an amazon.
Also, even if both pairs get traded off, one is at least still not, due to the extra corner squares, reduced to playing a standard chess position.