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Spacious Torus Chess. Chess on a toroidal board, using Ralph Betza's spacious pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Anonymous wrote on Sun, May 12, 2002 11:45 AM UTC:
A small correction: The line that read currently as: 


    To solve this problem, The following diagram illustrates this: 

should have been
                          
   To solve this problem I tried some different starting setup that 
   kept with the minimalistic philosophy. After some playtesting the
   following is what I came up with:

💡📝Jianying Ji wrote on Sun, May 12, 2002 11:46 AM UTC:
the previous message was posted by me.

gnohmon wrote on Tue, May 14, 2002 01:52 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
The ascii diagrams show an extra White N on b1.

Anonymous wrote on Mon, Apr 17, 2006 02:47 PM UTC:Poor ★
Unfortunately you haven't dealt with the issue of the kings being next to each other the game starts with an impossible situation you really need to redefine how peices may move over the back rank. There is no move by white that deals with blacks king and queen except to take blacks king so either white can take blacks king or white is in checkmate at the beggining of the game.

David Paulowich wrote on Mon, Apr 17, 2006 05:09 PM UTC:
'Then it occured to me if the pieces were all spacious FIDEs then the kings would not be in mutual check since they can't make any spacious captures...'

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