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Haynie's Primary Chess. On 6 by 6 board without knights. (6x6, Cells: 36) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Fri, Apr 23, 2004 06:56 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
As Pawns have no initial double move, it could be said that just as the files removed are specifcally FIDE files b and g, the ranks removed are specifically FIDE ranks 3 and 6. Another name for this variant could be ARIANA (All-Radial dIANA).

Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2004 07:38 AM UTC:
It was only a suggestion, which the inventor can ignore or even denounce for himself. Speaking for my own variants I'd welcome a few alternative names for Great Herd, Humpmitregi, and Tryzantine Chess. Does Michael Howe really mean that were he to invent the greatest variant ever he would not post it until he had thought of a decent name for it, even if that took another two years? Let's hear Billy Haynie's own verdict.

Anonymous wrote on Sun, Apr 2, 2006 05:49 PM UTC:
Why not play with knights instead of bishops?

J Andrew Lipscomb wrote on Mon, Apr 3, 2006 02:46 AM UTC:
You could easily play with knights instead of bishops--that would be Los Alamos Chess plus castling.

Rodrigo Zanotelli wrote on Sat, Jun 20, 2015 08:08 PM UTC:
There is low alamos chess that is this variant with knight instead of bishop and without castling.

But anyway, removing knights from the game make the queen have all the game moves.

"But you could just add knight moves to queen making her a amazon"

But then the king will not be a simplified version of amazon.

"Ok, but if that is the problem you just add knight moves to king too"

Then the knight move the king to will not be a simmplfied version of the kngiht move queen do.

JTW wrote on Thu, Jun 13 03:41 PM UTC in reply to Charles Gilman from Fri Apr 23 2004 06:56 AM:

Although the castling rule doesn't fit into that analogy, since FIDE castling queen side would still move the king two files over, and king side would make it vanish from the board. ;-)

Actually, I'd have thought the natural extension of the FIDE castling rule to this variant would still have moved the king two spaces (so from d1 to b1 queen side or f1 king side).


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