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George Duke wrote on Thu, Aug 9, 2007 04:10 PM UTC:
We have surveyed 300 of 700 large Chesses one by one in Comments beneath each, never got to Omega til now and rate Omega rules in bottom 20% because CVPage has many very average and 50 or more Excellent large CVs. Like Grand Chess (in bottom 20%) O. suffers from low piece density making long games broadly reminiscent of Shogi variates. Its weaker piece mix, not Pawns per se, is reminiscent of very different Shogi in 15 Omega games played in GC. Notice Cavebear compares to no other large CVs staying within comfort zone of familiar Omega and Shogi as exotics. We too hope people acquire Omega sets, if available, to play other variates since several complimented physicial pieces. 'The Champion works' on 8x8 compared to what? How about (N,F), (N,W), (Dab,F), (Alfil, W) and six or seven other commonplace and established substitutions for either Bishop or Knight instead? Does it best replace B or N? Anyone with nothing better to do, go for it, find whether this Champion(D+A+W) in particular is better than any of those, or better than Bishop, on reasonable 8x8 not oversized 104. 'Bears no resemblance' could apply pairwise to FIDE Chess and FRC, or Falcon Chess and FC with Airplanes: totally different games. Faced with proliferation we compare and contrast closely and afield, even mathematically by Game Design Analyses. Macdonald's 'Positive feedback' comes because people, seeing that mad Queen ran its course, it is finished to be given chance want any 'something different for a change', as CVPage website Intro has said for 12 years.

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