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Poison Chess. Harpies can poison pieces which can be healed by doctors. On 8 by 8 board.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, Jul 20, 2003 08:48 AM UTC:Good ★★★★horst wrote on Tue, Jan 4, 2005 04:30 PM UTC:Good ★★★★A good game. But why do you bother about wether a pawn can promote to a rook? It would simply be stupid to promote a pawn to a rook if he can promote to a queen (or guard in this case).
Anonymous wrote on Wed, Jan 5, 2005 06:50 AM UTC:Good ★★★★The same reason why promotion to Rook is useful in FIDE Chess--on rare occasions it is the only promotion that is any good. Let's say that in the particular position promoting to Queen would cause stalemate--then if promotong to Rook doesn't give stalemate but will allow you to win later, it is the correct move. These positions are not common, but they do exist.
This variant seems particularly suited to the novelty set at
Mythical Beasts Chess Sets, which uses a Harpy to represent the Rook!
I'll play you!
I think, harpys are too weak... Looks like, they exists only to poison
king, other pieces are mostly poisoned only to remove check (if there is no
other way to remove it or these ways are disvantegeous)... To make game
more interesting, i think, it shouls have more harpys (maybe, 4) or allow
to poison opponent's pieces several times (maybe 3 times is OK).
It's funny: in english language male pawn can become female queen, while
in russian word 'pawn' is female ('peshka'), and instead queen, there
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