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I wish that uneducated chess players will stop complaining about draw possibilities. Don't you get it? A well played game by both sides will result in a draw.
In omega chess - the rook and king vs king is a draw - deal with it.
Stalemate was a beautiful improvement to ancient chess and is here to stay.
The problem in regular chess is NOT draws - it is short draw offers and opening memorization - (too much games are played out) .
Another thing - while this is a great variant, it is even more useful for stronger players. Weaker players can stick to regular chess or if they hate the draw rules and cannot understand the beauty of them - give up chess.
I was pleased to read the previous comment by M.Howe. I totally share his point of view for an alternate array similar to GrandChess (or my own Shako). It is what I call 'Decimal Omega' and proposed into my 'War of the Worlds'. see http://www.chessvariants.com/large.dir/warworlds.html The specific board being like a commercial signature for Omega Chess, I don't think that there is a single chance that either M.Howe or me being listened by the inventors of Omega. Too bad !
After visiting the Omega Chess website I learned that King and Rook cannot force mate vs. a lone king because of the extra corner squares. In fact, even some fairly large forces cannot enforce mate if the opposing king can get to the correct corner square. This seems to me to make the game more drawish than it needs to be. I would therefore propose, to make the game less drawish, that the corner squares disappear after the wizards move off of them for the first time. Or, I would propose that an array analogous to the one used in Freeling's Grand Chess be adopted, with pawns on the third rank and wizards on a1/a8 and j1/j8. On the positive side, Omega Chess sets seem to the reasonably prices and come with both 10x10 and 8x8 boards. I think I'll get one.
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