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gnohmon wrote on Mon, Dec 2, 2002 04:33 AM UTC:'A minor question -- if a Crane has not moved, but pecks at a piece from its starting place, can it still castle? Also, when castling long, would a piece at b2/8 still block castling?' If it pecks, can it castle? I have to stop and think a moment, because the answer goes into rule zero of all rifle chess variants. ... No, that counts as a move. Can it castle over blockage? No, castling is special. Glad you like the game.
Tim Stiles wrote on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 05:01 AM UTC:problem with zip file: there's a 10x8 board, but not an 8x10 board so some of the variants can not be played.
Whoops! Sorry 'bout that. I've updated the ZIP archive, and there's a 10x8 board in there now.
''In the original conception of this game, the counterpeck of a dying piece could kill the Roc's Egg (King), and Pawns (Nestlings) had only their usual FIDE powers.'' Betza, Aronson and Lawson rightly uphold imaginative TGIFTB as perfectly playable and could add today more entertaining than 90% of 2007-2008 rerun fare. In rating Betza's ''This Game is for the Birds'' Excellent also, Peter Aronson comments: ''This is a strange and very mobile game, where pieces ghost around freely, and a Pawn's life is not a happy one.''
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A minor question -- if a Crane has not moved, but pecks at a piece from its starting place, can it still castle? Also, when castling long, would a piece at b2/8 still block castling?