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Scirocco (old). On ten by ten board with over thirty different pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Thu, Jul 10, 2008 06:59 PM UTC:
Notice Scirocco had lot of discussion in 2005. I recently commented on both 1999 Jupiter and 1999 Typhoon of Adrian King. Rich Hutnik is right my sidetracking Comment on Many Worlds does not do justice to Calvinball Chess either. Sorry, I was distracted by further look at one of my favourites Gridlock II and the Murray quotation King uses here at Scirocco, where King describes his design philosophy, insofar as it can be taken seriously. There are 36 different piece-types in Scirocco, only few non-standard being long-range, such as Scirocco and Spider. Later Typhoon has at least 75 piece-types all well-defined. King deliberately flouts Pritchard's ''Designing a Variant'' admonition, that elegant game combine minimum rules with maximum strategy, as he states in the third section. Hey, what is Art history (or that of aesthetics) but often history of revolt against the prevailing Zeitgeist?