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Cross Chess. Game played on a cross-shaped board. (Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Jul 28, 2004 07:36 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
On the other hand, convert Queens to Kings AND Bishops to Queens and you get a 4-player game with unbound pieces only. Pushing the Pawns a rank forward (assuming a bar on moves through concavities) and cramming the entire FIDE back rank onto the ranks behind gives something similar to, but more compact than, the Half-Pawn version of my Fivequarters. The board is, I think, worth a rating of good for its extra possibilities, even if the array shown here is uninspiring.