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On Designing Good Chess Variants. Design goals and design principles for creating Chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Feb 21, 2012 05:58 PM UTC:
This rule would need some clarification on what you mean by 'equal'. I would be inclined to define it as that every piece should have the same move steps from every square. But to account for board edges, you would have to allow some steps to be disqualified for falling off board. The topology of the board could be a hairy matter, though. Are boards with holes in them non-Chesslike?