Gary Gifford wrote on Sat, Mar 15, 2008 12:58 PM UTC:
Charles: This is a nice variant concept that reminds me a little of Chess with Different Armies. It offers a good variety of play.
I do have some simple requests in regard to your interesting Maces and Horse-apults piece set:
a) Please call the Maces in your preset Alfil-Maces or Elephant-Maces. Because they have that added movement and the new name would make that more clear.
b) Please call the Horse-apults in your preset Dabbabah Horse-apults or War Machine Horse-apults. Because of their added movement. Also, in your rules you need to mention that Horse-apults capture 'adjacent pieces by displacement' (as does a King.)
In time I would hope to see new graphic pieces for the Alfil-Mace and the Dabbabah Horse-apult. The new graphics would be a Elephant/Mace combo image and a Dabbabah/Horse-apult combo image.
With the new images we could have games with standard Maces and Horse-apults; and Alfil-Maces and Dabbabah Horse-apults on the same board.
In closing, congratulations on creating the 'Pick the Piece Big Chess.' I look forward to watching some of these in action.
I do have some simple requests in regard to your interesting Maces and Horse-apults piece set:
a) Please call the Maces in your preset Alfil-Maces or Elephant-Maces. Because they have that added movement and the new name would make that more clear.
b) Please call the Horse-apults in your preset Dabbabah Horse-apults or War Machine Horse-apults. Because of their added movement. Also, in your rules you need to mention that Horse-apults capture 'adjacent pieces by displacement' (as does a King.)
In time I would hope to see new graphic pieces for the Alfil-Mace and the Dabbabah Horse-apult. The new graphics would be a Elephant/Mace combo image and a Dabbabah/Horse-apult combo image.
With the new images we could have games with standard Maces and Horse-apults; and Alfil-Maces and Dabbabah Horse-apults on the same board.
In closing, congratulations on creating the 'Pick the Piece Big Chess.' I look forward to watching some of these in action.