George Duke wrote on Wed, Oct 7, 2009 11:00 PM UTC:
Piece density should be no absolute and instead there should be clues from the rules and the piece mix which way to go from conventional 50%. This truism is backdrop for Joyce's more technical attack density etc. Do small boards then generally work better with higher than 50% piece density? Let's
see, Los Alamos 6x6 has 50%. Centennial is great at 52% piece density on 100. I think Grand and the Canadian Omega are fast dying out partly because of low piece density -- as well as Carrera compounds in the one case -- making boring games. Reading this very thread 7 years ago, I coined ''piece-type density,'' which conventionally stays around 10% (meaning 6/64 for example), but adhering to the rule is the exception. Only a plurality of cases are 9%, 10%, 11% piece-types.