Check out Grant Acedrex, our featured variant for April, 2024.

Enter Your Reply

The Comment You're Replying To
Tony Paletta wrote on Thu, May 1, 2003 03:48 PM UTC:
For anyone who might find the approach helpful, a very rough try at a
'faceted definition' of a movement rule for 'an Extended Relay Chess
Family' might look something like this. Pick one from each bracketed
category to get a CV (design new options that fit the structure; design a
new structure ...).


'Chessmen have intrinsic movement patterns: [intrinsic movement rules].
The movement powers of [affected group] are temporarily modified by the
intrinsic movement patterns of other chessmen. Chessmen affected by this
rule temporarily gain the unshared intrinsic movements of [gain source]
when [gain condition]; they temporarily lose the intrinsic movement
patterns shared with [loss source] when [loss condition].'


Some sample category options:

[intrinsic movement rules]   
  these patterns are the same as in standard chess, ...
[affected group]
  RNBQ, ... 
[gain source]
  friendly affected class units, 
  hostile affected class units, 
  any affected class units, ...
[gain condition]
  intrinsically observed by the source,  
  intrinsically observing the source,
  on a space adjacent to the source, ...
[loss source] 
  friendly affected class units, 
  hostile affected class units, 
  any affected class units, ...
[loss condition]
  intrinsically observed by the source, 
  intrinsically observing the source,
  on a space adjacent to the source, ...

Edit Form
Conduct Guidelines
This is a Chess variants website, not a general forum.
Please limit your comments to Chess variants or the operation of this site.
Keep this website a safe space for Chess variant hobbyists of all stripes.
Because we want people to feel comfortable here no matter what their political or religious beliefs might be, we ask you to avoid discussing politics, religion, or other controversial subjects here. No matter how passionately you feel about any of these subjects, just take it someplace else.
Quick Markdown Guide

By default, new comments may be entered as Markdown, simple markup syntax designed to be readable and not look like markup. Comments stored as Markdown will be converted to HTML by Parsedown before displaying them. This follows the Github Flavored Markdown Spec with support for Markdown Extra. For a good overview of Markdown in general, check out the Markdown Guide. Here is a quick comparison of some commonly used Markdown with the rendered result:

Top level header: <H1>

Block quote

Second paragraph in block quote

First Paragraph of response. Italics, bold, and bold italics.

Second Paragraph after blank line. Here is some HTML code mixed in with the Markdown, and here is the same <U>HTML code</U> enclosed by backticks.

Secondary Header: <H2>

  • Unordered list item
  • Second unordered list item
  • New unordered list
    • Nested list item

Third Level header <H3>

  1. An ordered list item.
  2. A second ordered list item with the same number.
  3. A third ordered list item.
Here is some preformatted text.
  This line begins with some indentation.
    This begins with even more indentation.
And this line has no indentation.

Alt text for a graphic image

A definition list
A list of terms, each with one or more definitions following it.
An HTML construct using the tags <DL>, <DT> and <DD>.
A term
Its definition after a colon.
A second definition.
A third definition.
Another term following a blank line
The definition of that term.