Check out Atomic Chess, our featured variant for November, 2024.


[ Help | Earliest Comments | Latest Comments ]
[ List All Subjects of Discussion | Create New Subject of Discussion ]
[ List Earliest Comments Only For Pages | Games | Rated Pages | Rated Games | Subjects of Discussion ]

Single Comment

2007-2008 Chess Variants Design Contest. Chess variant inventors gather round! We're doing it again! Exact nature of contest to be determined with YOUR help!![All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Cavebear wrote on Thu, Aug 2, 2007 10:57 PM UTC:

My vote: Alternate pawns and kings.

Rationale: There are hundreds of variants where the pieces are new but the king and pawn structure is the same.

My suggested design parameters: Could be played on an 8x8 board, with a standard chess set. The design must use alternate kings and pawns, may use alternate queens and/or rooks (including optional inverted rooks), and may not use alternate bishops or knights.

I'd also like to state that I am a big fan of rules/variants that reduce the chance of a draw.

Cavebear