Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Jun 27, 2011 06:05 AM UTC:How might one take two FIDE armies and strengthen them in different ways? Strengthening one player's Rooks to Goldrider might intuitively be matched by strengthening the other's Bishops to Silverider. Likewise Rook to Golddragon might be matched by Bishop to Silverdragon. The difference in the number of moves added would balance replacing a Bishop with an unbound piece - but would that be balance enough given that one player will still have two bound pieces and the other only unbound ones? Should the other player's Bishops be replaced by something even weaker, like a Copperider in the first instance and a Copperdragon in the second? The reason why I ask is because I have had an idea for a themed variant using Goldddragons and Copperdragons in that manner. Silverdragons would not be relevant to the theme. I suspect that Copperdragons will be too weak, but perhaps some partial extension to that player's Knights as well might balance everything up. I welcome any thought on the matter. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Riders/Dragons does not match any item.