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Doublewide Chess. A discussion of the variant where two complete chess sets (including two Kings per side) are set up on a doublewide board. (16x8, Cells: 128) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

gnohmon wrote on Fri, Jun 20, 2003 05:01 AM UTC:

Doublewide non-chess-variants? I'm not too familiar with halma or the
other one you mentioned.

I gave up those games long ago when i realized that the tactical element
predominated too much over the strategical. Before then, I was legendary
in 'Lines of Action', a game whose rules I no longer even remember.

I suspect that doublewide ncv is generally uninteresting. In fact, my
opinion is that doublewide chess would be uninteresting without
doubleking, for highly elevated values of 'interesting'.

By that, I mean to say that Ddoublewide with just one King is
automatically and by definition no playtest needed a difficult game and
interesting to play. But so what? There's nothing special there, just
more of the same.

My personal opinion may not be shared by the majority, of course.