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Doublewide Chess. A discussion of the variant where two complete chess sets (including two Kings per side) are set up on a doublewide board. (16x8, Cells: 128) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

David Short wrote on Mon, Jun 9, 2003 02:16 AM UTC:Poor ★

My invention Doublechess

http://www.chessvariants.com/large.dir/doubleboard.html

is better than this. I dislike variants with two kings. 
Chess should be single minded. Checkmate one king to win the game.
In Doublechess I replaced the second king with a third queen.
There is an imbalance with the Doublechess game you showed
(I am not quite clear on whether the game you are commenting on
in the link where you say 'for example, this' and show a link on
'this'
but the game shown in that link has an imbalance the bishops are on
the same diagonal with an enemy queen, my Doublechess all the bishops
are on diagonals with enemy bishops) also a game that is almost identical
to that one on a 15 by 8 board with one of the rooks removed and the
center rook being able to castle with either king is a commercially
marketted game called Millenium Chess and is sold by the
United States Chess Federation. It has never been published on this
site  because it is a commercially produced game.)

Anyway my Doublechess is the best 16 by 8 game around,
why try to tinker with perfection?? ;-)