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I'm thinking about adding an imitator in a chess with different armies environment.
But I don't like the idea of having access to the powers of the opposite armies.
So I came up with the idea of the transferer, which it would be a piece transferes the power of the enemy piece just moved to it's counterpart in the player's to move army.
For example in CC vs NN if white CC have just move a waffle (phoenix) the black NN player would have a fibnif power for the transferer. Any thoughts on this?
Nobody curious about this?
Intriguing idea, Aurelian. Maybe once we can get the Friend coded in?
Meanwhile, I'm contemplating a back row with one each King, Queen, Candlestick, Knife, Lead Pipe, Revolver, Rope, and Wrench. I haven't quite figured out the XBetza for those last six yet; my intent can be found here. (I hope to build a full-fledged mashup some time in the future.) I have a suspicion that my descriptions may unnecessarily overpower the FIDE set. (Maybe a Wazir instead of a Queen?)
PS: I'm quite fond of the Lame Duck and Half-Duck from the Sliders set, and the Dragon Fly from the Dragons.
@Bob Greenwade
O don't see the connection between the friend and what I had proposed!
I was thinking of the Friend as one who could copy the moves of a friendly piece guarding it; conversely, the Orphan copies the moves of an enemy piece attacking it. With modifications, that might be able to do what you're thinking of.
Unless you're thinking of combining move borrowing with relay, or something like that.
I have always thought this game was first created in 1996 by Ralph Betza, however, I notice Wikipedia says this ..
Chess with different armies (or Betza's Chess[1] or Equal Armies[2]) is a chess variant invented by Ralph Betza in 1979.
Is that right.
1979 is the date of invention recorded in our database. Betza’s games became better known in the 90’s thanks to the arrival of this website,but he is from an older generation and did not wait for the arrival of the web to start creating chess variants.
Ahh ok, thanks Fergus, interesting to know, much earlier than I thought. Thank heavens Wikipedia wasn't wrong lol.
How about switching Diamonds & Onyxes?
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@H.G., I've been trying to use Kingslayer/CwDA for playtesting but I have one issue regarding the notation for promotions. I believe the ' should be used to indicate a piece from the opponent's army, but when Kingslayer plays black, it puts the apostrophe on the notation even when promoting to a piece from its own army. I haven't had an opportunity to look through the source code yet.