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Ministers Chess. Two queens on each side on a 9x9 board, available commercially.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Michael Keller wrote on Tue, Jan 9, 2007 09:19 PM UTC:Poor ★

Just plain stupid to have bishops on the same color.   It would be
easy to fix by swapping one bishop-knight pair.

Derek Nalls wrote on Tue, Jan 9, 2007 10:41 PM UTC:Poor ★

The inventor claims that the both-bishops-bound-to-the-same-color problem is fixed by a special move that allows a bishop to shift one space to the opposite spacing (dark to light for both players). In fact, moves themselves are too valuable of a resource in chess-related games for this special move to entirely compensate the imbalance (at the cost of 1 move). Thus, the dark spaces still possess some pre-eminence in bishop power.

Alto wrote on Sat, Oct 20, 2012 04:35 AM UTC:

With two Queens, the game will be even more overly Queen-reliant than
orthodox chess. 

May I suggest the following rule changes:

1. The Queen can move only up to two spaces orthogonally or diagonally.
2. The Bishop can also move one square orthogonally, but may not capture
this way.

Albert Lee wrote on Tue, Oct 23, 2012 07:42 AM UTC:

I previously posted on this site as Alto. I've proposed a rules change to Ministers chess before, in the hope of making it less queen-dependent and have bishops on squares of alternating colours.

I've changed my mind about my previous post, and came up with an idea of a different kind of chess played on a 9x9 board. I created a Zillions of Games file of the game as well, and shall submit my new chess variant to this website soon.

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