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Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Nov 29, 2010 06:55 AM UTC:

The difference from a normal FIDE-pieces-versus-non-FIDE-pieces variant is
that both players can visualise their own pieces as FIDE ones - and, by
looking at the board in a slightly different way, their opponents' ones as
well. They don't have to think of one side's 'Rooks' as compounds of a
Rookfiler and half a Bishop, and 'Bishops' as filebound compounds of a
Rookranker and a quarter of a Nightrider, and 'Knights' as fileswitching
compounds of half a Ferz and a quarter of a Buffalo! They don't even have
to notice - as I did only while plotting out these moves - that one
player's division into odd and even ranks is the other player's Bishop
colouring.

H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Nov 25, 2010 09:52 PM UTC:

This is in principle not different from any other variant where there are
pieces that break left-right symmetry: You can give the opponents the same
or the reflected pieces. E.g. on a square board a right-handed 'Skewed
Rook' which moves N-S like a Rook, and NE-SW like a Bishop. You can then
make the corresponding piece of the opponent move NE-SW as well, or NW-SE
(besides N-S).

Charles Gilman wrote on Thu, Nov 25, 2010 07:27 PM UTC:

There has been much talk on these pages of square boards being presented as hex - ort if you prfer, hex boards being used for square games. However, has anyone ever considered a hex board which each player interprets in a different way? After all, it is easy enough to imagine a standard hex board being used for a game that resolves to:

but what about one that White sees as:

and Black as

where upright pieces represent standard FIDE ones and sideways ones something more exotic? Do you understand the idea?

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