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The Black Ghost. Black gets a teleporting Ghost piece that can not capture to balance White's first move advantage. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Anonymous wrote on Sun, Sep 28, 2003 07:53 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

I like the idea of using the 'Black Ghost' to balance the first-move
advantage of White. However, I would have preferred a different name for
this piece as I don't really like the term 'Black Ghost'. This name
just doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the chess pieces. May I
suggest
the Latin term 'Servus' instead (which means serf and therefore fits
into the medieval settings of chess. Also, 'pawn', which means 'foot
soldier', is also a Latin term), as this piece is obviously of the
non-military sort as it cannot capture the opponent's pieces, but it can
still be used as a blockader or a sacrifice.
Another issue is that this new piece may just over-balance the first-move
advantage of White. I think the benefits of having this piece may just
exceed the benefits of moving first.