Daniel Smith wrote on Wed, Oct 5, 2005 05:36 AM UTC:
Back in high school (1980s) we had a variant for when we were running
short
of lunch break. We called it Chultima, and at each move we could play as
chess, or as ultima. This made for some very short games, and most of us
were howling with laughter at the (in hindsight) really stupid moves we
had just made.
[For some reason we had slightly different terminology:
Chameleon -> Amoeba ('changed shape', or similar spurious reason)
Pawn -> Roller (because they rolled up and down ranks)
Long Leaper -> Leaper (could only jump a single adjacent piece like a
weakened draughts/checkers king)
Also, the coordinator could only take one piece at a time: in the useful
direction.]
Back in high school (1980s) we had a variant for when we were running short of lunch break. We called it Chultima, and at each move we could play as chess, or as ultima. This made for some very short games, and most of us were howling with laughter at the (in hindsight) really stupid moves we had just made. [For some reason we had slightly different terminology: Chameleon -> Amoeba ('changed shape', or similar spurious reason) Pawn -> Roller (because they rolled up and down ranks) Long Leaper -> Leaper (could only jump a single adjacent piece like a weakened draughts/checkers king) Also, the coordinator could only take one piece at a time: in the useful direction.]