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

Enter Your Reply

The Comment You're Replying To
Anonymous wrote on Sat, Dec 12, 2009 03:44 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
It is a reasonable take on the Napoleonic period. Once chess adds
battlefield terrain effects to the game it is much more like a traditional
wargame. Wellington brought an inferior army to a superior battlefield at
Waterloo. Much of the Dutch were deployed toword the flanks because
Wellington did not believe that they could hold against the French. He also
deployed his main force on the reverse slope of the ridge to keep it clear
of French artillery.

Chess can become unbalanced when a terrain advantage is the force
multiplier. The Best game that is chess like that I have seen factor in all
these variations is Battle: The Napoleonic Wars. It was developed by S.
Craig Taylor, Jr. one of the master game designers of the twentieth
century. It is much like chess however the play balance is adjusted for in
the battlefield system.

Overall the designs are interesting and Game Play seems simple enough to
teach to new players.

Edit Form

Comment on the page Napoleonic Chess

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.