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Archoniclastic Chess. Pieces are augmented on squares of their color. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

gnohmon wrote on Sat, Mar 30, 2002 08:00 PM UTC:

<HR>I really ought to sieze the publishing delay as an opportunity to rewrite and improve the text of Ghastly Chess, on the principle that a sick wind blows poorly. For Mikado, there is already List Chess, my 1977 name for 'many rule sets in one game'. One could also have Fan Chess, in which every piece carries a fan; instead of moving, the player can have one piece deploy its fan, which makes it immobile and ancapturable. It would take two turns to close the fan, and the first turn would leave the piece immobile but capturable. Stalemate loses, of course. The Mikado is all about teaching the chorus to use the fan a certain way. Any game with a Jester would serve for the Yeomen, and for the subtitled Iolanthe, any form of Fairy Chess does the trick. Trial by Jury, though, wrecks everything. Bummer. Would 'Chess and Verdi' work better? No, I thought not. Puccini gives us Mimi Chess, where the Q gradually becomes weaker and ultimately expires. So, there's hope. Basingstoke, indeed. -- gnohmon<HR>