Jeremy Good wrote on Sun, Jul 29, 2007 02:07 PM UTC:
I like your idea even better, progressive extra cost. Let's do it!
I'm just going to mention in passing that this variant has inspired me to think of a new 'time travel' variant too. Each move, you can either take all 8 of your moves or you can move up to 4 AND take back up to 4 points worth of most recent moves, either your own or your opponent's. Under this scheme, pieces that had been captured could re-emerge and (maybe even) move again! It would be strange indeed, but actually maybe less chaotic, in a sense, than Multimove Chess proper though it would be of course, harder to notate.
I'm just going to mention in passing that this variant has inspired me to think of a new 'time travel' variant too. Each move, you can either take all 8 of your moves or you can move up to 4 AND take back up to 4 points worth of most recent moves, either your own or your opponent's. Under this scheme, pieces that had been captured could re-emerge and (maybe even) move again! It would be strange indeed, but actually maybe less chaotic, in a sense, than Multimove Chess proper though it would be of course, harder to notate.