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Chess80. (Updated!) Chess variant on a 10x8 board with a new piece called Duke. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Alex Damian wrote on Wed, Apr 23 11:33 PM EDT:Excellent ★★★★★

This page of mine is ready for publication for the following reasons:

  • The rules are clear, unambiguous, and easy-to-understand.
  • The rules are comprehensive.
  • There is a locally-hosted setup image, or the setup is the same as Chess.
  • Locally-hosted images are being used for pieces, or only Chess pieces are being used.
  • The piece names are linked to Piececlopedia articles when there are any.
  • No code on the page is broken, or it has no code.

💡📝Alex Damian wrote on Wed, Apr 30 04:27 PM EDT:Excellent ★★★★★

Please review submission.


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Apr 30 04:45 PM EDT:

While I don't see another game called Chess80, there are already multiple Chess variants using the same board, and another name might distinguish the game better.

I think your castling rule is the one I introduced in Grotesque Chess, but it's described in a more convoluted way. I have called it Flexible Castling, and it is also mentioned on our page for Castling Rules in Chess Variants.


💡📝Alex Damian wrote on Thu, May 1 12:18 AM EDT:

Thanks for the input. I have cleaned up a bit the castling explanations and put some references to the Flexible castling as you suggested. Note there's a small difference with Flexible Castling in that the King may also occupy the Rook's original spot. In regards to the name, short of coming up with something too whimsical or outlandish for the sake of being unique, I prefer to keep it as-is. There's a multitude of other variants which have numbers e.g. chess960, chess100, etc. I may rename it later if I ever find something worthwhile.


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, May 1 12:52 PM EDT:

I published this after making some changes to the HTML and the organization. I moved details on design considerations and piece values to the Notes section, as it helps to already know how to play the game before reading these. I changed header levels to start with H3, as H1 and H2 are handled by the script that turns the database entry into a web page. I set the static diagram to show up only if JavaScript is disabled so that the reader will see only one diagram.


🔔Notification on Thu, May 1 07:14 PM EDT:

The author, Alex Damian, has updated this page.


💡📝Alex Damian wrote on Thu, May 1 07:28 PM EDT in reply to Fergus Duniho from 12:52 PM:

Thanks


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