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Game Reviews by stonemason
It's always nice to see a chess variant when you win in yet another new, exciting way. However, I do have one question...would this game be drawish? I can imagine quite a few scenarios where there's a giant blood-bath and soon there aren't enough pieces left for this player to win. If I knew this game wasn't drawish, I'd rate it excellent.
An excellent game with an excellent theme. Maybe I'll have to do a 'Swedish Chess' (since that's my heritage). Since Vikings once lived in Sweden, I guess I'd have to include elements from Hnefatl (or however that game is pronounced/spelled)...
This is probably one of the best games that could be made on a 2*5 board. Another idea would be to allow pieces to use the line intersections as well as the squares, and transfer between them somehow. There are 18 line intersections, however...and 28 cells doesn't sound very good for the contest. I do have one complaint, though--it has to do with the 'repetition' rule. I generally don't like this rule, and here's why. Keeping track of ALL the positions that have been used up so far is very time-consuming in a real life game (though thankfully not in a computer match), because you have to write down everything as you go along. That's why I don't like Philosopher's Chess very much, even though it won a contest. It's not that bad with more10, which probably will be fairly short, but I still prefer games without repetition rules.
Thanks for the information. I have now rated Decima 'Excellent'. I would probably play the Zillions file right now, if I had ZoG on my computer. Dang! Why does Zillions of Games have to cost money, though? I'd download it right away if it were free.
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