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Expanded Chinese Chess. Missing description (9x12, Cells: 108) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Feb 23, 2011 07:49 AM UTC:
I stop short of rating this variant as poor - or even below average, which is how I was inclined to when I first read it in any depth, but it is certainly not a well-presented one. When adding a new piece, let alone new cells to a variant with as featureful a board as Xiang Qi, it really pays to clarify how, if at all, the board features affect the extra pices and the extra cells affect the board features. It is striking how much you have had to keep explaining in comments that should have been stated on the page itself from the start.
	Regarding the variant itself my first instinct is that it is an attempt to achieve something that perhaps a dozen other variants such as Yang Qi and Xiang Courier achieve more effectively and elegantly. In case there is some intent that I have missed I reserve judgment until you explain it.