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Well, to damn it with faint (or dubious) praise, it seems reasonable to me,
at least at first blush.
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With forced captures and an attainment goal, the play will not be
particularly Chess-like, I suspect. Not that that's a problem.
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It has some simularities to
<a href= '../diffobjective.dir/giveaway.html'>Losing Chess</a>, but only
in the middle. I do wonder if the board will just become hopelessly
clogged, particularly the middle board. The problem is, pieces
can only be forced to move by offering them captures, and captures can
only be offered <strong>on</strong> the squares you want to be able to
move pieces <em>off</em> of.
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Perhaps some form of capture other than elevation is required for the
outer boards, such as <a href='../difftaking.dir/circe.html'>Circean</a>
capture where captured pieces are returned to their starting square.
What happens if the top squares get filled up? Is the game a stalemate, or is there a way to clear out the top to make room fo the king and queen? Also this has some resembalance to Cheops, in which one of the two objectives is to have the queen on the top level of the pyramidal board.
In order to prevent the upper levels from being clogged up, perhaps I should introduce a gravity rule: before a player moves, all of his/her pieces that both (1) haven't moved in the past two turns and (2) have an empty square directly below them descend one level. Or perhaps, when an elevation isn't possible, a 'captured' piece could be placed on any empty square chosen by the capturer.
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