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Ministers Chess. Two queens on each side on a 9x9 board, available commercially.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]The inventor claims that the both-bishops-bound-to-the-same-color problem is fixed by a special move that allows a bishop to shift one space to the opposite spacing (dark to light for both players). In fact, moves themselves are too valuable of a resource in chess-related games for this special move to entirely compensate the imbalance (at the cost of 1 move). Thus, the dark spaces still possess some pre-eminence in bishop power.
With two Queens, the game will be even more overly Queen-reliant than orthodox chess. May I suggest the following rule changes: 1. The Queen can move only up to two spaces orthogonally or diagonally. 2. The Bishop can also move one square orthogonally, but may not capture this way.
I previously posted on this site as Alto. I've proposed a rules change to Ministers chess before, in the hope of making it less queen-dependent and have bishops on squares of alternating colours. I've changed my mind about my previous post, and came up with an idea of a different kind of chess played on a 9x9 board. I created a Zillions of Games file of the game as well, and shall submit my new chess variant to this website soon.
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