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Near Chess. This is a variant of Skirmish Chess designed to be friendlier to newbies. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Joe Joyce wrote on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 02:04 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
I had an opportunity to play Near Chess this past weekend, and also 'Chess with Almost Different Armies': Near vs FIDE. They are both fine games. The rating of good is the highest I will give to a modest variant; this one deserves it. 
Joe
ps: congrats, Rich, someone else posted here ;-) - it really is a very nice game, I recommend it.