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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]
💡📝Gary Gifford wrote on Wed, Mar 14, 2007 09:21 PM EDT:
The main idea of the 'Old Monkey' here, representing the King (weaker from heavy gravity), was to allow the originally planned Ferz, and then to allow the backward move, not so much as a third avenue of retreat, but as a means to change square color-- which was lacking in the original concept [as Charles Gilman had pointed out]. I am not sure as to what is better, (a) using the Old Monkey, or (b) using a Wazir with allowance for it to transform into a Ferz (irreversably), when a player feels that is adviseable.