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Gaugamela Chess. Asymmetric warfare that mirrors the famous battle of Gaugamela. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Mar 28 10:16 AM UTC in reply to Florin Lupusoru from 09:54 AM:

Rooks are supposed to stay out of the game until there are (half-)open files, and they should wait with advancing from the back rank until sufficiently many minors have been traded to make that safe. In orthodox Chess a Rook ends up next to the King after castling, and you then develop it further by sliding along the back rank to the place it is useful. (As you are usuall not going to open the f-file and weaken the King's Pawn shield.) It would not be any different here, except that you can skip the castling. The Knight on g1, OTOH, cannot move before you first weaken the Pawn fortress. Queens are not dependent  on open files, as they can slip through the Pawn barrier diagonally, and a move along the back rank would just waste a tempo. So a Queen on g1/b8 would also not be ideal, altough it can at least get out without compromising the Pawn structure.