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John Ayer 
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To be perfectly clear, I am thinking of a piece that bears the same relationship to the gold that Peter Aronson's great elephant bears to the silver.
M Winther wrote on
In this late interview Fischer is supportive of some form of amendment of chess, not only FRC. Note that he also mentions a solution where a new piece is added, something which I have experimented with. http://chess960frc.blogspot.com/2011/01/me-and-bobby-fischer-and-chess960.html
M Winther wrote on
Those Novag Yorter Xiangqi computers are today very difficult to come by. So I created my own Xiangqi computer: I bought a small magnetic Xiangqi set on ebay. As Xiangqi computer I use my HP palmtop 1000CX, which is an old palmtop running DOS. It so happens that there are strong DOS Xiangqi programs freely downloadable on the net. Those HP palmtops have flash memory so one can turn them off, and start them later, and the Xiangqi program immediately continues thinking. So now I have my own dedicated Xiangqi computer, finally! Certain chess computers were designed like this, too: a magnetic set plus a handheld computer. It's a good idea. Moreover, Chinese Chess sets should have the traditional symbols, it is much more attractive. The Chinese have played with these pieces for a thousand years. It's cultural history, and the symbols are easy to learn. By the way, Xiangqi is a very strange chess variant. There is not a scrap of strategy in this game, only tactics. /Mats
Steven Streetman wrote on
George Duke…
I see no reason why a Spartan army could not take on Nutty Knights or Colourbound Clobberers. Might prove interesting. With your experience in piece evaluation would it be play-balanced; on paper anyways?
BTW – have you considered creating a version of Bughouse Chess for CDA? I searched for one, not extensively, and did not find one. It seems that it would be interesting.
I have just made a submission for Bughouse Spartan Chess that is pending approval. Having a Spartan army on one of the four sides makes things pretty crazy.
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