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Sorry, King!. (Updated!) Two parallel games of Chess and Sorry (Ludo) influence one another. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
A. M. DeWitt wrote on Sun, Mar 17 02:53 PM UTC in reply to Florin Lupusoru from Sat Mar 16 05:04 PM:

I have moved the standard piece values to the Notes option as an additional variant to make it clearer which value set you are using.

red square. The checker pieces have to make a complete tour of the board. Their

I have removed the underlined sentence, as it doesn't really say anything.

  • At least four checker pieces per player make a complete tour

I probably should have touched on this earlier, but I think this rule seems like another random addition. However, I do think it can work with the right tweaks.

First, the checkers should ideally have two sides, like with some checker sets that use a star for a Checker King. That way, you can flip the checker (or "promote" it, so to speak) when it makes a complete tour around the board.

Second, if a promoted checker gets captured, it would make more sense to keep it promoted, since otherwise, this condition is too unlikely to happen.