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AvantGarde Chess ZIP file. A font-named variant that adds a Centaur and a Man to the standard setup.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Feb 5, 2006 07:53 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
This looks like a good game. I like the symmetry in the selection of pieces. But the zip file needs to be fixed, and this page should mention the castling rule used. The zip file has the graphics in an alfaerie/ folder instead of images/alfaerie/, which is where the ZRF expects them to be. I learned from examining the ZRF that the King moves three spaces to castle. Also, the ZRF would be improved by including a set of abstract pieces.

💡📝Peter Aronson wrote on Sun, Feb 5, 2006 11:05 PM UTC:
OK, Fergus, I've fixed the ZIP archive file and I've added Abstract pieces as an alternate piece set. I following the Centaur and Man pages for which abstract pieces to use for the added pieces. I've also clarified the castling rule a bit.

Kevin Pacey wrote on Tue, Nov 12, 2019 04:46 AM UTC:

This 10x8 variant looks like it could also have been (coincidentally/unintentionally, in this instance) inspired by the (mirror image, i.e. Ks and Qs switched, along with Centaurs and Manns switched) setup for 12x8 Courier-Spiel (that is, without the ferfils used, in this 10x8 variant's case). In the case of my own 10x8 variant Hannibal Chess, I kept the ferfils in the setup, instead.

https://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/courierspiel.html

https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/hannibal-chess


David Paulowich wrote on Sun, Apr 23, 2023 07:13 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

diagram

WHITE CENTAUR and dots marking the "safe squares" for a BLACK KING.

This game is a fine example of developing a single theme. One way of measuring the Centaur's strength is to ask the question: "Where can I place my King on the board and still be safe from a check by the Centaur next move?" Not many squares. Note: if this board had a "zero row", then its dot pattern would be the same as the one on the 8th row.


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