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Energizer Chess. Chess on a normal board with an Archbishop and a Chancellor added. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

David Paulowich wrote on Sat, May 12, 2007 05:48 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

I have been known to set up my Knights in very strange places. I prefer your smaller game to Eric's Great Chess, which squeezes all the pieces of the historic chess variant Great Chess into a 10x8 board.

💡📝Abdul-Rahman Sibahi wrote on Sat, May 12, 2007 10:07 PM UTC:

Thanks for the rating.

Personally, I am not very satisfied with the starting position. Switching the Queen and the Archbishop, I believe, would make a better game because it balances the Knight-compounds. However, I chose this one because RBQCKABR is basically the Gothic Chess position, which is patented.

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I updated the page to introduce a minor Shuffle variant. This gives a bigger opening book, but doesn't eliminate opening altogether.

Anonymous wrote on Sun, Apr 25, 2010 05:48 PM UTC:

I think, any game with 10 files and additional pair of pieces can have such
variant (additional pair of pieces can also be placed like cannons in this
game: http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/aigo-chess.html
-here openings will be closer to orthodox chess openings). For example,
Omega chess: champions are in these places and wizards are in imiginary
citadels.
Good for people, who are lazy to draw new boards.

David Paulowich wrote on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 01:54 AM UTC:

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Unicorn Chess was where I came up with the idea of placing the knight-compounds where they can leap into the squares vacated by the knights. And now we have this neat little chess variant. Does that make me an influencer?

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