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Royal Lion Chess. Chess with a Royal Lion and many strong pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Michael Nelson wrote on Sat, Jun 10, 2023 06:16 PM UTC:

The page should be ready for publication now. I have a working .ZRF, but it needs a bit of polishing.


Bob Greenwade wrote on Sat, Jul 1, 2023 06:21 PM UTC:

I, for one, like the looks of this game. I think I'd want to play it on 10x10, but that's my own extension of your variant.

(PS: Paladin has one L.) :)


Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Sat, Jul 1, 2023 08:07 PM UTC:

Isn't the Lion too hard to checkmate? You have playtested this game? I'm curious.


💡📝Michael Nelson wrote on Thu, Jul 13, 2023 07:25 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from Sat Jul 1 08:07 PM:

By intention, the Royal Lion is hard to checkmate. The games run quite long (100+ moves) but draws are not common per Zillions vs. itself at a strong setting. This won't be to everyone's taste. If further testing indicates the game is drawish, perhaps bare Lion should be a win, but so far it doesn't seem to be.


💡📝Michael Nelson wrote on Thu, Jul 13, 2023 07:31 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from Sat Jul 1 06:21 PM:

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💡📝Michael Nelson wrote on Thu, Jul 13, 2023 07:44 PM UTC:

BTW, mating positions do exist for Royal Lion and Amazon vs. Royal Lion, but I'm not sure mate can be forced.


Bob Greenwade wrote on Fri, Jul 14, 2023 03:43 AM UTC in reply to Michael Nelson from Thu Jul 13 07:44 PM:

BTW, mating positions do exist for Royal Lion and Amazon vs. Royal Lion, but I'm not sure mate can be forced.

Referring, of course, to checkmate.


H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Jul 14, 2023 07:32 AM UTC:

With Royal KNAD both a Queen and a non-royal Lion can force checkmate (on 8x8). Even under conditions where the bare Lion is allowed to pass its turn (so that there never is any zugzwang).

Fairygen could not check if this would require the non-royal piece to deliver contact checks, though. (Which in the case  of a full Chu-Shogi Lion would get them rifle-captured.)


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