Jeremy Good wrote on Fri, Jul 7, 2006 01:25 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
This essay is an admirable start! I think we can expand on the categories quite a bit and provide more examples. As the author himself says:
'I would encourage an effort to build on this, so that a more complete resource would be available to Chess Variant designers or problemists.'
I think there may be an obvious category which is 'Imitator' as in the Chameleon / Mimotaur. [Edited addition: I see now that David has written an entirely separate and also excellent essay on imitators.]
The 'Ooze' has a cousin in the Amoeba from Hedden's Microorganism Chess which I think introduces some more original categories of pieces as well...
This essay is an admirable start! I think we can expand on the categories quite a bit and provide more examples. As the author himself says:
'I would encourage an effort to build on this, so that a more complete resource would be available to Chess Variant designers or problemists.'
I think there may be an obvious category which is 'Imitator' as in the Chameleon / Mimotaur. [Edited addition: I see now that David has written an entirely separate and also excellent essay on imitators.]
The 'Ooze' has a cousin in the Amoeba from Hedden's Microorganism Chess which I think introduces some more original categories of pieces as well...