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Storm the Ivory Tower. A Smess adaptation of Chinese Chess. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Jul 14 10:01 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 02:04 AM:

I must admit that it appears to work, but it should count as heavy abuse of XBetza notation. (Which is used to define all moves with detours to measure the location of the piece.) But it is true that the more conventional solution, of morphing th epiece to a type that has the proper moves on the square where it lands, is also no joy, because of the large variety of squares, and the huge number of types this would require. There must be more convenient methods of handling variants of this type...