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Kevin Pacey wrote on Sat, Sep 24, 2016 11:40 AM UTC:

Hi Aurelian

My opinion would be just one man's, and I'm relatively new to chess variants myself. Fergus may be right in that familiar pieces may give a game a head start as far as being more accepted, say in becoming heavily played on Chess Variant Pages' Game Courier (possibly with some time needed for a game to become more and more popular). That's if you take the trouble to make a Game Courier preset for your game. It might encourage you that I'd guess Shogi (Japanese Chess) may have seemed a little strange to people right after it was first invented, as far as having certain pieces with asymmetrical, complex movements goes (e.g. the Gold & Silver Generals). The road of a pioneer or inventor is not always a smooth or sure one. I've felt in my gut that chess variants I've invented may excite people, only to change my mind later in a lot of cases (though I'm prone to changing my mind a lot, anyway). As far as my tastes go, I like games with fairly simple rules, boards and piece movements, but there are a lot of people who play what I think are strange or uninteresting chess variants, at least on Game Courier.


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