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Hi Roberto. Well, it seems to me from reading the rules that it is indicated that in fact, all pieces are protected from capture when these two pieces are adjacent. But this need not result in a draw. One can still move one's pieces. If all pieces were frozen that would be still another story. To capture again, all one need do is move them out of alignment again, hide one genius from the opposition's genius, hide one's guardian angel from the opposition's guardian angel. It may be that there are cases when one player has such an advantage that the opposing player will want to draw, and that there may be no effective retreat. In which case, adjacency may be seen as a godsend and special drawing device for the player with the inferior condition. So the player with advantage one must be leery. But this is not as strong a drawing tool as the one in Jetan. To win a traditional game of Jetan, one must be careful about when to reveal a decisive advantage or your opponent can easily draw.

I have an open invitation to play this game and I wish someone would accept it as it seems to be one of the more original and interesting variants. George Duke and I have an ongoing game that we have only just begun. George, if you want to accept my invitation, we can play either the same game with both types of pieces, or we can start a new game too. Just an option. Or I can send you a new one if you want, should someone else accept it. Also, I've created presets with more logical pieces for some of the Turkish Great Chess variants we are playing. I can send you copies if you are interested. There is of course a function to allow alternate piece sets for each variant in Game Courier, but I don't know how to implement that function yet. Meanwhile, I think I'll create and post a different set of presets for some games that already have presets, including Greg Strong's polymorph chess. I would upload them to the same page, but in some cases, I can't get into the page and I don't know how to use ftp yet. lol. I'm sure Greg Strong himself can help me with that though some day.

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Hello, I am the author of the Toddler. I am make a new version of this game: The Unified Empires. You can discover It at this web page: http://perso.orange.fr/jean-yves.boulay/emp/index.htm Thank you for your comments on this new version more enthralling !