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Gast's Chess. Large 1969 variant using the Cardinal (Guard) and the Chancellor (Archer). (12x12, Cells: 144) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Jeremy Good wrote on Tue, Feb 28, 2006 08:41 PM UTC:

Well, I'm not seeing a Game Courier preset for tutti frutti chess or I'd be interested to play it too. I've been playing Alekhine Chess at cowplay.com and so far I haven't enjoyed it as much as I thought I would. An unusual preliminary theory I'm entertaining about it though is that while the superpowerful pieces remain on the board, I'm not sure the king is safer castling, but it's a pretty complex game and that notion could be false. Btw, you didn't answer my questions. Your comments are helpful though. Would you believe I had overlooked that rule about pawns capturing two diagonally? By giving the pieces more options for how to move (and allowing the pawns to meet in the middle), Gast really makes the larger board very manageable and it may be that superpowerful pieces like the Gast Archer and the Gast Guard are better suited in fact to a larger board. That may seem obvious, but it's something worth exploring.