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I’ve edited that article, now Karmium General can’t castle to Rooks, and winning rules are changed also.
Sorry, I definitely refuse to call RQ as an amazon.
Before I do, can I suggest different phrasing?
White has no knights or bishops, but their queen is amazon plus a hit-and-run capture of adjacent pieces.
So, can you change its short external description, like:
"White hasn't Queen and minors but places hybrid of all chessmen with hit-to-run adjacent taking"
edit: instead of "White has little diff in setup but..."
Thx very much, I've edited
I'd suggest to stick to one name for white's superpiece. I don't think "& be placed" is helpful in the description of that piece, nor including rook and bishop when it already moves as queen. Draw occurs if checkmate is impossible, but it's always possible for white if it still has its superpiece (?), and without it the game will already end in 5 turns?...
Radioactive Queen Chess is long time ago considered as ready. Sorry, it’ll be nice to get your answer when you will be free.
AI level X - Rechefiltr_is_Fire
White places his Karmium on d1 and looks pleasant), so black moves first.
- Nf6 (do this move by black and insert only moves after) O-O 2. Nc6 c4 3. d6 d4 4. Bd7 Ab3 5. e6 Axb7 6. Be7 Axc6xb7 7. O-O Axa8xb7 8. d5 Axc7xb7 9. dxc4 Axa7 10. Be8 h4 11. Bd6 Aa6 12. e5 Axc4 13. exd4 Rad1 14. Qb8 Rxd4 15. Bh2 Kh1 16. Nh5 g4 17. Ng3 fxg3 18. Qxg3 h5 19. Qh3 Rf3 20. Bg3 Kg1 21. Qh2 Kf1 22. Qh1
Rechefiltr_is_Fire - AI level X
White places his Karmium on f1 to avoid white’s first sufficient move, black moves normally first.
- Af1 (also move and insert only moves after this) d5 2. Ae3 e6 3. Ae5 Nc6 4. Axd5-e4 Nf6 5. Ae3 Bd6 6. O-O-O O-O 7. Ac4 Ne5 8. Ad4 Nc6 9. Ae3 Nb4 10. Kb1 Nfd5 11. Ac4 Nf4 12. Axb4xc4 Qg5 13. h4 Qxg2 14. e3 Qc6 15. Ad4 Qb6 16. Af3 Nd5 17. Rhg1 a5 18. Ag5 Nc3 19. dxc3 Qxb2 20. Kxb2 Ba3 21. Kxa3 Ra7 22. Axg7
I’ve beaten InteractiveDiagram with black and with white (I can send you move checklists). Don’t forget that white starts a game with SkyBrilliant’s drop, but black is the first player to move.
Something like Janggi
Ready for publishing. Hit-and-run captures activate only after adjacent taking move. So it’s like Lioness!
That does seem more reasonable. Although I still have my doubts that this ability would be enough to compensate for 3 minors.
Designing a viable asymmetric variant is far harder than designing a symmetric one. Because you have to worry about balance, which in the latter case is automatic, provided you take care of some minor points like a tactically quiet start position (e.g. no easily attackable unprotected pieces). To know whether an asymmetric game is balanced you really have to do extensive play testing, either by hand or through computer games. While you obviously never do any play testing at all.
I changed the move of the Cyberpiece in the Diagram I posted earlier to what you describe now. Can you beat the Diagram's AI with white now? Can you beat it with black?
Ready for publishing. Hit-and-run captures activate only after adjacent taking move. So it’s like Lioness!
I will remake this variant. Slightly
I see you equiped the Radioactive Queen with hit-and-run captures now. But would that not make it too strong? Can anyone beat the Diagram below with black?
My submission is ready)
Ready
OK I've edited that
For reference, Betza has a (unofficial/untested?) Chess-with-different-armies team with an amazon; he just limits the rooks to R4 and keeps the other pieces:
https://www.chessvariants.org/d.betza/chessvar/cvda/amazon.html
This is extremely unbalanced. An Amazon is only worth as much as a Queen plus a Knight, and the ability to castle or e.p. capture is of no significant value. So it is like black is three minors ahead, amongst which the Bishop pair.
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