Comments by JaredMcComb

When I submitted entries to the 44SC contest, I also submitted a third
variant, entitled Glacial Shift, which had nothing to do with the contest.
 I am afraid that in the hubbub of the submission deadline and voting
starting, the game was either lost or forgotten about.  If necessary I can
send it again.

Okay, I know this isn't official at the moment, and there's really no
point to this, but hey.

Chebble

Play on a Scrabble board.  Each player has four each of Rook, Knightrider,
and Bishop in hand, as well as one King.  Kings start in opposite corners.

Play Scrabble as usual.  Before making a play, you must move a chess
piece.  Scrabble tiles may not be played to an occupied space, and chess
pieces may not move through tiles (although Knightriders may leap them). 
Besides moving, a player may spend points they have accumulated to drop a
piece adjacent to their King.  It costs 10 points to drop a Knightrider,
20 points to drop a Bishop, and 30 points to drop a Rook.  It costs double
or triple points to drop on a premium square, depending on the premium
(double word or letter costs double, triple word or letter costs triple). 
You may not drop a piece into a position from which it immediately gives
check.

Kings may remain in check, but cannot be mated.  Instead, a player
receives a point bonus for each piece of theirs checking their opponent's
King at the end of their turn.  You receive 5 points for checking with a
Knightrider, 10 points for checking with a Bishop, and 15 points for
checking with a Rook.  Any checking piece on a letter premium square
receives an appropriate multiplier which is applied to its checking bonus.
 Any checking piece on a word premium square similarly multiplies all
checking pieces.  It is of course possible to have a checking piece have
its own multiplier as well as one or more other multipliers granted it by
other checking pieces.

Play ends when the game of Scrabble is over, after which the player with
the highest score wins.

When did that happen?  Did I miss a news post or something?  And why did it
happen?

If I were to reconstruct the game based on the material given, I would have
assumed it would differ from the rules presented on this page in two
ways:

Rather than cannons, there would be two rooks.  The rook is a piece which
is found in every historical game to date, and there is no reason which a
piece that 'resembles a castle' shouldn't be one.

The knight would not be able to move one space orthogonally (this might be
the result of an inaccurate diagram on Kisljuk's part, however).

As for the pawn move, since no information is really given, either a Shogi
or a Changgi interpretation would work, although the latter probably makes
for a more playable game.

--Jared

Thanks for clearing that up, Fergus.

I would also like to point out that Fergus did previously state that new
CVs would be added to the RCV list, but on a 'less frequent' than
monthly basis.  We're not just throwing everything we like on this list.

What happened to Dai-Ryu Shogi?  I submitted it several weeks ago...

The assumption by the unnamed individual is correct.  Also, a link to Ryu
Shogi where it is referenced in the rules would be a very good idea.

Also, I will not be renaming any pieces in this variant.  See, I had this
thing called a THEME going.

All the same, it would be nice to see who did.  If you don't wish to
disclose the information, though, why not just come out and say so?

I would assume BWII wasn't disqualified and was in fact not voted for
well, due to a bad case of rehash disease.  I honestly don't know what
came over me.