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Modern Chess. Variant on a 9 by 9 board with piece that combines bishop and knight moves. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Mon, Apr 4, 2005 08:23 PM UTC:
'MNO,LargeCV': Contemporaneous Janus Chess has doubled Cardinal(B+N), but with 9x9 board (year 1968)Modern Chess has just one and calls it Minister. Actually, this just takes now over 100-yr.-old Chancellor Chess and substitutes for the Marshall(R+N), making a marginal improvement. Those two, Modern and Chancellor, are both characterized by commercialization. However, same-coloured Bishops throughout are the drawback here. It seems the best CVs preserving the orthodox six(RNBKQP) go all the way to ten files if wanting to introduce new piece(s).