Greg Strong wrote on Sat, May 26, 2018 12:34 PM UTC:
With one Queen, one Chancellor, and one Archbishop, that yields two rook-movers, two bishop-movers, and two knight-movers. I think that has a certain satisifying symmetry to it. That said, I think two of each is fine, as is one without the other. I perfer Archbishops to Chacellors myself. I also don't feel that a game necessarily needs any piece-type "completeness" (possessing all combination of leapers or sliders.) For example, when adding a Chinese Cannon to a variant, I do not think a variant is automatically sub-optimal if it does not provide diagonal equivalent (Vao.)
With one Queen, one Chancellor, and one Archbishop, that yields two rook-movers, two bishop-movers, and two knight-movers. I think that has a certain satisifying symmetry to it. That said, I think two of each is fine, as is one without the other. I perfer Archbishops to Chacellors myself. I also don't feel that a game necessarily needs any piece-type "completeness" (possessing all combination of leapers or sliders.) For example, when adding a Chinese Cannon to a variant, I do not think a variant is automatically sub-optimal if it does not provide diagonal equivalent (Vao.)