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Swap Chess. A move can consist of a series of pieces swapping places. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Tue, Jul 20, 2004 04:17 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Swap Chess and Switching Chess are neither in Pritchard's ECV(1994). Switching Ch's now requiring adjacency should avoid passive positions on 8x8. This Swap Ch. would be the better implementation on larger boards 8x10 and 10x10--further improved probably without the serial swaps. This one's Swap along range of attack of P1 calls for full-sized boards enabling exotic pieces: some pairing of Marshall, Cardinal, Falcon, Nightrider/Quintessence, or Cannon/Canon. Quintanilla's basic Switching Chess originally has switch over one straight or diagonal step between same-coloured units and plays better than say Fischer's Random, even with still prosaic piece mix.