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Heavy Gravity Chess. Chess with heavy gravity, Knights can't jump, Queens, Bishops, and Rooks are limited to 4 spaces per move, Kings move 1 diagonal. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Mar 14, 2007 03:46 AM EDT:
Why replace the King with a piece moving as a Ferz? This leaves it colourbound, bringing an asymmetry between one enemy Bishop that can never threaten it and one whose binding it can never escape. I would have expected a better choice to be a piece moving as a Wazir, or one moving as a Silvergeneral (Ferz with forward orthogonal added), or one moving as a Coppergeneral (all forward directions plus backward diagonal). All three would be non-colourbound, but like the Ferz unable to triangulate.