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On Designing Good Chess Variants. Design goals and design principles for creating Chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jörg Knappen wrote on Tue, Feb 21, 2012 11:46 AM UTC:
[23] All squares are essentially equal, there is no terrain to consider.

This criterion draws a line to war simulation games, where land, water and cities play an important role.  

Xiang Qi mildly violates this one.