💡📝Kevin Pacey wrote on Tue, Jan 26, 2016 02:31 AM UTC:
I originally had in mind that the person I seem to recall who disagreed with the game produced by the inventor of Alekhine Chess (as far as the number of its Amazons to be included) was an example of a person not pleased with a particular game (other than mine, which is somewhat similar to Alekhine Chess). Clearly not everyone can always be satisfied with any particular variant, and someone may want it altered even in an unspecified way.
In Sac Chess, if one has a position on the board with all piece types included, such as in the Setup position, the Amazon is the only piece that can always (unless pinned to the King) take any sort of piece type that is threatening it (I think this is a major point that you're indicating). The game is also a bit heavy on pieces that can move at the least like both a king and a rook (or bishop), e.g. both Sailors, both Amazons, and the Queen (for each side) can move like a king or rook, at a minimum. It's a drawback (of the theme of compound pieces that I used), possibly.
Whether or not it would be better to alter the game is an open question, but at this stage it's already being played on Game Courier, and I think I like the way it's turned out so far. Perhaps I (or someone else) can make a variant based on Sac Chess at a later date that may prove popular. At the moment it's the only variant I've invented (out of 10, so far) that someone (namely Carlos) kindly decided to write a Game Courier program for.
[edit 28 March 2018: I'd note, too, that, e.g., in the historic variant Courier Chess, the queen used there is a ferz-like piece, clearly inferior in powers to the guard-like piece type that is also used in that game, so it seems that Sac Chess is in such a way at least not without one or more precedent(s), in variant(s) that proved at the least somewhat popular in the past, if only regionally perhaps.]
I originally had in mind that the person I seem to recall who disagreed with the game produced by the inventor of Alekhine Chess (as far as the number of its Amazons to be included) was an example of a person not pleased with a particular game (other than mine, which is somewhat similar to Alekhine Chess). Clearly not everyone can always be satisfied with any particular variant, and someone may want it altered even in an unspecified way. In Sac Chess, if one has a position on the board with all piece types included, such as in the Setup position, the Amazon is the only piece that can always (unless pinned to the King) take any sort of piece type that is threatening it (I think this is a major point that you're indicating). The game is also a bit heavy on pieces that can move at the least like both a king and a rook (or bishop), e.g. both Sailors, both Amazons, and the Queen (for each side) can move like a king or rook, at a minimum. It's a drawback (of the theme of compound pieces that I used), possibly.
Whether or not it would be better to alter the game is an open question, but at this stage it's already being played on Game Courier, and I think I like the way it's turned out so far. Perhaps I (or someone else) can make a variant based on Sac Chess at a later date that may prove popular. At the moment it's the only variant I've invented (out of 10, so far) that someone (namely Carlos) kindly decided to write a Game Courier program for.
[edit 28 March 2018: I'd note, too, that, e.g., in the historic variant Courier Chess, the queen used there is a ferz-like piece, clearly inferior in powers to the guard-like piece type that is also used in that game, so it seems that Sac Chess is in such a way at least not without one or more precedent(s), in variant(s) that proved at the least somewhat popular in the past, if only regionally perhaps.]