Kevin Pacey wrote on Tue, Oct 24, 2017 03:35 AM UTC:
I'm posting a diagram of an idea I have for a variant so that I can examine it at leisure. I was toying with the idea of inventing a chess-like variant with some new piece types with old-fashioned names that really suited such medieval battles, but after an initial look at the effect of the new piece types I came up with, I'm now inclined to a more modern name for such a variant if I eventually submit such. Maybe 'Gamma Chess' ('X-Ray Chess' somehow doesn't seem as good), or on second thought possibly Archer Chess, if that name isn't already taken either.
In the diagram below, the Boat piece type has the powers of a Cannon and a Guard. The Archer piece type has the powers of a Vao and a Guard. I'd estimate the value of a Boat as about 8 [edit: this should be approx. 6.25 instead; see my next post in this thread], while putting an Archer at about 6 Pawns, though the latter might well be way more dangerous initially in a typical game. I'm thinking the game would be played like Capablanca Chess in other respects as far as the rules go: [edit: I've switched the positions of the new pieces and the B's in the setup, and redefined the powers of the T(Boat) and A(Archer) piece types to be alfil+guard and dabbaba+guard respectively (each worth about 6.5 I think); see the next 2 of my posts ahead in this thread for some explanation - perhaps Gamma Chess will now be the choice of name if this game ever flys]
I'm posting a diagram of an idea I have for a variant so that I can examine it at leisure. I was toying with the idea of inventing a chess-like variant with some new piece types with old-fashioned names that really suited such medieval battles, but after an initial look at the effect of the new piece types I came up with, I'm now inclined to a more modern name for such a variant if I eventually submit such. Maybe 'Gamma Chess' ('X-Ray Chess' somehow doesn't seem as good), or on second thought possibly Archer Chess, if that name isn't already taken either.
In the diagram below, the Boat piece type has the powers of a Cannon and a Guard. The Archer piece type has the powers of a Vao and a Guard. I'd estimate the value of a Boat as about 8 [edit: this should be approx. 6.25 instead; see my next post in this thread], while putting an Archer at about 6 Pawns, though the latter might well be way more dangerous initially in a typical game. I'm thinking the game would be played like Capablanca Chess in other respects as far as the rules go: [edit: I've switched the positions of the new pieces and the B's in the setup, and redefined the powers of the T(Boat) and A(Archer) piece types to be alfil+guard and dabbaba+guard respectively (each worth about 6.5 I think); see the next 2 of my posts ahead in this thread for some explanation - perhaps Gamma Chess will now be the choice of name if this game ever flys]