Sam Trenholme wrote on Thu, Feb 4, 2010 03:41 AM UTC:
Now that I’m playing this game in the tournament, some issues:
The documentation does not make it clear the pawn has an initial double move like in modern “Mad queen” chess.
It is confusing to have the bishop-like piece be able to leap two squares, but having the queen-like piece not able to leap two squares, jumping over other pieces.
I think it makes more sense to either allow the general (queen-like piece) to jump, or to have the queen-like piece be a rook + ferz + alfil (rook + bishop-like move) in this variant.
If you want something less powerful, another option is to have the queen-like piece be a “commoner”: Moves like a king, but is not royal.
- The documentation does not make it clear the pawn has an initial double move like in modern “Mad queen” chess.
- It is confusing to have the bishop-like piece be able to leap two squares, but having the queen-like piece not able to leap two squares, jumping over other pieces.
I think it makes more sense to either allow the general (queen-like piece) to jump, or to have the queen-like piece be a rook + ferz + alfil (rook + bishop-like move) in this variant.If you want something less powerful, another option is to have the queen-like piece be a “commoner”: Moves like a king, but is not royal.