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Jose Carrillo wrote on Sat, Nov 21, 2009 11:48 AM UTC:
Fergus said: But this game avoids these faults (Ultra Chess), because the pieces cannot capture with their additional powers of movement.

Absolutely!

In a simple way (in my opinion) Ajax Chess allows players to increase their tactical play without sacrificing or taking away the distinctiveness of the orthodox pieces.

Ajax Chess was an independant creation to Ultra Chess. I never heard of Ultra Chess until David Paulowich's comment below pointed out the similarity.

As I had pointed out earlier, this position shows one reason why I didn't want my Ajax Rooks, Bishops and Knights to be able to capture with their 'adopted' moves:



This position is from my game with Vitya Makov is after 5.Bi7 with the Bishop pinning Black's Knight.

Should the Black Knight be able to capture on it's one-square 'adopted' moves (like it could in Ultra Chess), this type of pins would be impossible, for ... Nxi7 would remove the threat, which would make the game boring, and eliminate some of the chess tactics (i.e. the simple Pin above) we are acustommed to.

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