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Updated the rules of the game and changed the way the Queen becomes pregnant.

To answer your last question, you have to edit the submission you want to delete, then you empty the different blocs that you may have filled previously, then you save it. Your submission should be empty at this stage and then it should be possible to delete it.

I have an idea for another modest variant, similar to Reproduction Chess, where the Queen can capture a friendly Pawn and then place it on the board. However, I cannot add it because I am limited by the number of open submissions.

I also can't delete old "Shift Tower..." and "Shift Summit..." submissions because I get the message "As a safety precaution, you may not use this script to delete a submission unless it is empty. Delete its content first if you mean to delete it.". I don't know how to remove them?

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H.G.'s point on excessive proliferation (what I call "the tribble effect") is a good one, if a little exaggerated. As a solution, I'd recommend using my suggestion of leaving the new Pawn behind in the space vacated by the Queen. Then, not only does it take at least two turns to make each one, but the player is limited to eight without also moving the King.

As for the double-step question, I'd suggest allowing it only for Pawns spawned in the first two rows, just to avoid confusion (since the "born" Pawns are presumably indistinguishable from the ones the player starts with).

I see. Too bad.

As to the current variant: it seems to me that the Queen can produce new offspring at an alarmingly large rate, by keeping her next to the King, and give birth every turn. This might be so profitable that trying anything else becomes counter-productive, and the only viable strategy would be to accumulate Pawns until they completely fill the board, unless the opponent offers you something to capture.

To make this variant interesting it might be needed to slow down the maximum rate of reproduction a bit. E.g. requiring a turn to make a Queen adjacent to the King pregnant or to resolve a pregnancy, and only allow the latter to be done without moving the Queen, and when not adjacent to the King. Than the reproduction loop becomes: move next to King - get pregnant - move away - give birth - move back. So you would produce a new Pawn only every 4 turns. This is probably still fewer turns than you would need to gain a Pawn by ordinary play, so it might not even be enough to cure the problem.

Aslo here it is not clarified whether a newly born Pawn would have a double step, and if so, where.

Fertile Queen is currently hidden as ‘unprocessed’, pending answers (which probably aren't coming, since it's been 3 years) to detail questions

I agree with Aurelian. This is funny in its description, and could be a real hoot to play.

I'd tend to go with a version where the new Pawn (or even a Mann, promotable to Prince) is left behind in the space where the Queen just left. But that's just me. :)

I remember having seen a variant like this under the name 'Fertile Queen'. But I don't see it in the index here, so I am not sure where that was.

This sounds funny!

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