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Gross Chess. A big variant with a small learning curve. (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Apr 13, 2011 06:34 PM UTC:
Five of the additional pieces in Gross Chess come from some of the most widely popular of Chess variants, and a few of them have been widely used in many variants. So they are very well known enough that including them doesn't add much to the learning curve. The remaining piece is just the diagonal version of one of the first five, and Eurasian Chess, which I also use the piece in, is still more popular than Xhess. Also, the games Gross Chess is based on are each natural extensions of Chess, and by combining them, Gross Chess is just an even larger-scale natural extension of Chess. But Xhess is not a natural extension of Chess. It is a step in another direction. To replace some Pawns with Horsemen just does not fit with the theme of this game. It also tampers with an important element of the game and could potentially ruin it.

If you want to make a Chess variant that uses Horsemen, you are free to do so. But I will not be making a version of Gross Chess that includes them.