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Dragon Chess (tm)A game information page . Commercial board game played on a large board with a new piece -- the Dragon.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Gary Gifford wrote on Mon, Jun 12, 2006 09:12 PM UTC:
I looked over Dragon Chess and it is clearly not as imaginative as 95% or
more of the games I've seen at CV.  But I think the intent of the game is
to stay very close to chess, and at the same time wipe out all the
Openings.  So, it has done that. (( But then so does FRC... and so would
switching Knights and Bishops, etc. ))  In regard to making Dragon Chess
stray further from chess I think adding a few more piece types would have
made the game more desireable to a variants player.  For a typical chess
player wanting something marginally different, Dragon Chess might be good.


On a somewhat related note: Navia Dratp varied from chess quite a bit with
lots of different piece combos and options.  On an interesting note, I've
been informed that BANDAI (that game's producer) is abandoning it.