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May be the name for a new variant is not so good. A completely different
chess variant which also called 'Stealth Chess' already exists:
http://www.chessvariants.com/crossover.dir/stealthchess.html

I invented this game a couple of years ago.  Now that I'm a bit older and
have had a bit more experience with chess variants of all types, I've
concluded that while the basic concept is good, some of the details are
cumbersome and need to be streamlined.  In particular, some of the
multiple combinations (super pieces) are unwieldy.  Accordingly, I will be
releasing a streamlined version of the game in the near future.  

A sneak preview:

1. Pieces will not only absorb the powers of a captured enemy, but will
will also be able to merge with friendly pieces, subject to certain
restrictions.  (I've taken a leaf out of the book of some of Fergus
Duniho's games).

2. The king and queen will be abolished from the initial setup and will be
available only as combined pieces.  In their place will stand the wazir and
the ferz.  In the present setup, the merger of the queen with any other
piece creates just too formidable a piece which renders the game virtually
unplayable.  

3. The stealth bombers will be retained, but the 'super pieces' will be
abolished. 

4. The game will run in two 'personalities.'  In Personality A, no more
than two pieces will be able to combine at a time.  Personality B will
allow for the combination of any number of pieces.

5. The game will be adapted for hexagonal, circular, and three-dimensional
boards, among others.

Stay tuned!

I feel flattered by all the 'excellent' grades people gave me, but at that time, there were not so many games posted on the CV pages so people didn't have much to compare it with. I would probably rate it as 'below average' or 'poor' myself now, which is why I've never programmed it and have never made any diagrams. But this was my first serious attempt to design a game, and I've left this page standing to remind me of where I came from.

I did use the idea of pieces merging with other pieces for many of my other games (Diamond Chess 306, Dürer's Chess, Matrix Chess). You could saw that I see this game, not so much as a game worth playing, but as more of a source of raw material for other games.

WHy is this page called "StealthChess"?  (Look at the URL.)  That's misleading - since there is an actual game (like boxed and sold) called Stealth Chess - and this is nothing like that.  Also, I can't find the rules for actual Stealth Chess anywhere.

If you look at the earlier comments on this page, you will see that this was first pointed out in 2003. It may be assumed that the name was changed after that but the filename for the page remained the same.