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Is there a site where I can find a list of possible Knights Tours?
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.
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?
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.
Possible variant: instead of a knight's tour covering the board, make two camel's tours, one for each colour.
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