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The birth of two variants: Apothecary chess 1 & Apothecary chess 2[Subject Thread] [Add Response]
V. Reinhart wrote on Sat, Feb 25, 2017 04:38 PM UTC:
@Aurelian Florea
Yes of course I'd like to see the game idea. I thought you were asking us to speculate on the fool without knowing what it does. Now you and Greg explained it. That's the same piece sometimes called the Joker.
Honestly, I like the name Joker more. The fool is used in Courier Chess as a not-very-strong piece (i.e. "foolish"). I think the Joker sounds better because Jokers are unpredicatable.
 
Btw, here is an example game with a joker (with images for the full game): Bulldog chess-angel joker game .
 
Regardless, your game sounds interesting! The Fool/Joker piece always add a lot of fun "new strategy" to a game.:)