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This Game is for the Birds. Game where pieces fly past obstacles and some pieces capture by pecking. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

George Duke wrote on Wed, Jun 18, 2008 04:29 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

''In the original conception of this game, the counterpeck of a dying piece could kill the Roc's Egg (King), and Pawns (Nestlings) had only their usual FIDE powers.'' Betza, Aronson and Lawson rightly uphold imaginative TGIFTB as perfectly playable and could add today more entertaining than 90% of 2007-2008 rerun fare. In rating Betza's ''This Game is for the Birds'' Excellent also, Peter Aronson comments: ''This is a strange and very mobile game, where pieces ghost around freely, and a Pawn's life is not a happy one.''

💡Peter Aronson wrote on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 06:16 AM UTC:

Whoops! Sorry 'bout that. I've updated the ZIP archive, and there's a 10x8 board in there now.

Tim Stiles wrote on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 05:01 AM UTC:

problem with zip file: there's a 10x8 board, but not an 8x10 board so some of the variants can not be played.

gnohmon wrote on Mon, Dec 2, 2002 04:33 AM UTC:

'A minor question -- if a Crane has not moved, but pecks at a piece
   from its starting place, can it still castle? Also, when castling
   long, would a piece at b2/8 still block castling?'

If it pecks, can it castle? I have to stop and think a moment, because the
answer goes into rule zero of all rifle chess variants. ... No, that
counts as a move.

Can it castle over blockage? No, castling is special.

Glad you like the game.

💡Peter Aronson wrote on Fri, Nov 29, 2002 11:11 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

This is a strange and very mobile game, where pieces ghost around freely, and a Pawn's life is not a happy one. Flamingos and Flaming Cranes in particular have a short way with threatening Pawns -- the Pawn moves up, and is pecked, and that's that.

A minor question -- if a Crane has not moved, but pecks at a piece from its starting place, can it still castle? Also, when castling long, would a piece at b2/8 still block castling?

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