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Touring Chess. Pieces can either move normally or leap on a Knight's tour only known in advance to the referee. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Wed, Aug 2, 2006 12:34 AM UTC:
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Anonymous wrote on Tue, Aug 1, 2006 09:14 PM UTC:
Is there a site where I can find a list of possible Knights Tours?

Michael Nelson wrote on Wed, Jan 29, 2003 08:51 AM UTC:
I see your point about head games as well, Ralph. You may well have started a family of variants with this game. I cna envision an imperfect information varaint based on Archoniclastic Chess, for example, where the pattern of augmenting squares is not known to the players. This would require the moderator for every move, but could be computer moderated.

gnohmon wrote on Wed, Jan 29, 2003 04:47 AM UTC:
The reason I specified that Knight moves could be used to make the
information unequal is that I thought it added spice.

Suppose 1. e4 e5 2. Nh3; either you have made a touring move or you are
playing a weak move to fool your opponent. Probably it was a touring move,
right?

But next game, having established the pattern, you play the non-touring 2.
Nf3 -- and now your opponent really does not know!

It seemed to me that the possibility of this sort of head game added to
the interest of Touring Chess.

I appreciate also your liking for equal information, now that you explain
it. There could be variants of Touring Chess?

Michael Nelson wrote on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 10:28 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
A really great imperfect information variant. 

With regard to Knight moves, shouldn't non-touring Knight moves be sent
directly?  

If the opponent receives Ra1-c3 from the moderator, he knows it is a
touring move from the move itself, not just from having received it from
the moderator.  So both sides get the same information. Similarly, if the
opponent got Bc1-f4 from his opponent, he would recognize it as a
non-touring move from the move itself, not just from having received it
directly from the opponent.

But if all Knight moves go through the moderator and a player receives
Nb1-c3, he can't tell whether it is a normal move or a touring move, but
the player who sent the move does know. Why should there be a disparity
for Knights, when in all other cases equal information is obtained?

One of the things I like about this game is that when you obtain
information you also give it to the enemy--mkaes you think twice about
exploring.

Anonymous wrote on Thu, Jan 23, 2003 02:36 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
Possible variant: instead of a knight's tour covering the board, make two camel's tours, one for each colour.

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