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Quang Trung Chess 10th Edition
. The 10th edition.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]While this certainly looks like an interesting game, I find the statement
'<i>Quangtrung Chess (10th edition) is 100% original</i>' a bit curious.
If you look at the BCVS (British Chess Variants Society) page
<a href='http://www.bcvs.ukf.net/gvcm.htm'>All the King's Men</a>, you
see that the Quangtrung <b>Boat</b> is described there as a <b>Sea-Rook</b>
or <b>Triton</b>, the Quangtrung <b>Cannon</b> as a <b>Ski-Rook</b> and the
Quangtrung <b>Horse</b> as a <b>Moa</b>. And I'm fairly sure that the
Quangtrung <b>Infantry</b> shows up in some large Shogi variants. And
while the restriction on the 2nd move of a turn capturing is new to
<em>me</em>, there are a lot of variations on Balanced Double-Move Chess,
and that may not be new, either.
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And none of that really matters. What makes a game fresh and new is not
that the elements in it are new, but that it plays differently than
existing games, that the experiance of playing it is in some important way
different from playing any existing game. I see the comment:
<blockquote><i>
'Every facet of the game is original. I am telling this so everyone will
be assured that their time will not be wasted if they decided to learn
more about the game.'
</i></blockquote>
As misguided -- what makes a game worth learning about is not complete
novelty, but that it is enjoyable to play.