Jeremy Good wrote on Sat, Aug 1, 2009 08:20 AM UTC:
Thank you Graeme. I really love what you did with this. The longer board is a very good idea, allowing pawns to face off against each other.
I do feel though that the pawns are a little sparse. The hexagons in between the pawns appear to me as these great lacunae that demand pawns of their own - but if with regular pawns, it would mean the center could become quickly filled with unopposed pawns making the tension less familiar. So I propose filling them with berolina pawns. Which would take two steps to get to the sixth rank (an area regular pawns can't occupy at all unless they capture).
I'd also propose greater diversity of pieces - with greater range of strength, rather than the overly standard linear sliders + their knight compounds.
One might also introduce pieces that can peep through other pieces given the number of screens, but i notice the pao and vao icons are oversized for these hexes (the lion icon is leo = pao + vao):
I do feel though that the pawns are a little sparse. The hexagons in between the pawns appear to me as these great lacunae that demand pawns of their own - but if with regular pawns, it would mean the center could become quickly filled with unopposed pawns making the tension less familiar. So I propose filling them with berolina pawns. Which would take two steps to get to the sixth rank (an area regular pawns can't occupy at all unless they capture).
I'd also propose greater diversity of pieces - with greater range of strength, rather than the overly standard linear sliders + their knight compounds.
So maybe this?
One might also introduce pieces that can peep through other pieces given the number of screens, but i notice the pao and vao icons are oversized for these hexes (the lion icon is leo = pao + vao):
Turkish Hex
...with shatranjians and amazon replaced by supercombine (which can make its additional steps before or after its slide): third idea