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Irrational Chess. Chess game on an exotic board. (9x10, Cells: 66) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Max Koval wrote on Fri, Apr 14, 2023 04:11 AM UTC:

Game demo (gif)

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💡📝Max Koval wrote on Sun, Mar 26, 2023 09:33 AM UTC:

I included some endgame studies and problems to solve in the Notes section.

💡📝Max Koval wrote on Sat, Mar 18, 2023 01:34 AM UTC:

@H. G. Muller, new diagrams were added.

H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Mar 17, 2023 06:12 AM UTC in reply to Max Koval from 02:23 AM:

Due to the less regular board topolgy I would call it a necessity rather than excessive. There is ample room to show two diagrams side by side where you now show one. Or you could show two piecec in one diagram, marking the target squares for each of those in different colors.

💡📝Max Koval wrote on Fri, Mar 17, 2023 02:23 AM UTC:

@Jörg Knappen, this system was also an option, but I rejected it as being unbalanced for this variant. I usually prefer to use numeral notation where every cell has its own separate number, but for this one, I decided to leave it as it is since I'm looking forward to experiment more with this board type.

I think it would be too excessive to use more than one diagram for each piece. I added more descriptive info related to the rhomboid cells to avoid possible ambiguity.

Jörg Knappen wrote on Wed, Mar 15, 2023 05:07 PM UTC in reply to Max Koval from Tue Mar 14 06:16 AM:

In addition, I think the coordinate system is unnecessary complicated, the number should number horizontal rows (each row starts with light blue fields). In this case, they will run up to eight for the top row of light blue fields, but there are no dark blue nor white fields in row 8.

The complicated notation system does not add anything to the game (it can be played without coordinates, after all).

Jörg Knappen wrote on Wed, Mar 15, 2023 10:24 AM UTC in reply to Max Koval from Tue Mar 14 06:16 AM:

I think movement diagrams from the light blue squares would be a good addition to the game description, those squares are qualitatively different from the dark blue and white ones.