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CwDA: the Shatranjian Shooters. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Joe Joyce wrote on Wed, May 16, 2007 02:56 AM UTC:

I believe the shooters are more powerful than the fides, which is why I made the Grand CwDA version, in which the shooters get the 2-square minister and high priestess, and the fides get the standard archbishop [BN] and chancellor [RN]. I feel this evens the game a little, as much by increasing board size as by the additional power pieces for fide. 
For some interesting if sometimes unbalanced presets, I've put some illustrative 'short range vs FIDE' CwDA and GCwDA games in the CV wiki. It's a rant done entirely in games rather than words.
If you want to see an excellent game that showcases some other shortrange pieces, let me suggest David's Opulent Lemurian Shatranj.