What are the emotional and intellectual underpinnings of chess play, experience of variants and chess variant design? What guides you to think things through? ...
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Mats Winther
mawin_se
Jun 10, 2009 5:28 am
There are different methods of greatly enhancing variance in standard chess by an easy relocation method whereby one or two pieces can change place. There is...
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Mats Winther
mawin_se
Jun 10, 2009 3:18 pm
... I wrote this recently in the chess variants discussion group: The motif behind the preoccupation with chess variants. It's obvious that chess has become...
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John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal
Jun 10, 2009 4:14 pm
The popularity of a game is based on many factors, but one factor in particular plagues standard chess. That is replay value. There is a bell curve in games...
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Jerementality
zugzwangingz...
Jun 17, 2009 11:05 am
My initial query: *Does anyone know of a variant in which the first threat doesn't count? That a piece has to threaten another piece for a full turn before it...
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Jerementality
zugzwangingz...
Jun 17, 2009 11:27 am
Here is a suggestion for how to equalize Balanced Pendulum Chess: One can only make a capturing move when a turn behind and not making a double move. In other...
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Jerementality
zugzwangingz...
Jun 17, 2009 11:38 am
Hullabaloo is undergoing revisions with more playtesting... Some different versions under development. To see the Hullabaloo arithmetic, go to this page: ...
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Jerementality
zugzwangingz...
Jun 19, 2009 12:13 pm
Does it reflect a cultural value for dominance and parasitism over mutualism? For chaos and asymmetry? Over predictability and "reason"? [Non-text portions of...
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Jerementality
zugzwangingz...
Jun 19, 2009 12:14 pm
I realize I'm making three or five separate discussions and lumping them altogether with controversial implications. ... [Non-text portions of this message...
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John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal
Jun 19, 2009 2:17 pm
I think there wasn't/isn't a preference for one move advantage. The idea of simultaneous movement is a fairly recent game mechanic. Chess, in particular, is...
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Luca Cerrato
lucacerrato
Jun 19, 2009 2:59 pm
Hi, the new issue of the italian magazine Il fogliaccio degli astratti is on line, you can download from: www.tavolando.net In this number also Shuuro a modern...
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John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal
Jun 19, 2009 3:03 pm
Is there an English translation for those of us who unfortunately do not speak Italian?...
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Luca Cerrato
lucacerrato
Jun 19, 2009 3:59 pm
The magazine is only in italian, unfortunately. Luca ... www.tavolando.net...
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John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal
Jun 19, 2009 4:00 pm
I have one Italian friend could translate, but she likes to talk about wine and not chess. ;-)...
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Jerementality
zugzwangingz...
Jun 21, 2009 1:08 pm
Yes and no. John, I may agree with you that given more historic time, the apparent preference will erase because multimove variants are relatively novel ...
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John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal
Jun 21, 2009 3:43 pm
Yes, that was me. I have invented, but not been happy with, simultaneous chess. I have hidden the problem in other variants I created. For example I have...
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David
vipassana8123
Jun 23, 2009 10:10 pm
Are you referring to the one move advantage white has in chess? If so, I have 'solved' this problem with: http://www.d-chess.com/ In a nutshell: Random back...
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John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal
Jun 23, 2009 10:14 pm
The easier solution has been in many tournaments for other games for years. Player 1 makes any move as white. Player 2 may now decide to play as white or...
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Jerementality
zugzwangingz...
Jun 23, 2009 11:18 pm
There are many possible solutions to the problem but the psychology of a chessplayer appears to reflect that of a individuals who seem to prefer to follow...
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joejoyce3
Jun 24, 2009 3:45 am
I have to disagree with the idea that the usual schemes, or even many unusual ones (please see below for examples recently posted) actually eliminate the first...
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Mats Winther
mawin_se
Jun 24, 2009 6:38 am
Of course, it would be no point, for grandmasters, to devote themselves to orthochess if there were no first move advantage. The game would have been even more...
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Mats Winther
mawin_se
Jun 24, 2009 6:41 am
I have spent much time investigating new piece characteristics and have acheived some interesting results. Many are quite useful despite being atypical in...
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Jerementality
zugzwangingz...
Jun 24, 2009 8:51 am
Mats Winther <mwi9@...> wrote: "Of course, it would be no point, for grandmasters, to devote themselves to orthochess if there were no first move...
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John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal
Jun 24, 2009 2:21 pm
In Simplified Chess, a variant designed to remove some of the kruft from Standard Chess, I've found that the first move advantage is greatly reduced but for an...
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John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal
Jun 24, 2009 2:28 pm
My favourite is The Adjutant, although I differ in your valuation. I would rank it slightly higher than a rook, but only slightly. I love the Korean Cannon...
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Mats Winther
mawin_se
Jun 24, 2009 6:14 pm
... The preset, however, will check that the Swedish Cannon moves are legal. Mats...
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John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal
Jun 24, 2009 6:16 pm
I was thinking more along the lines of playing FTF. Of course a perfect arbiter is preferred. :-)...
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joejoyce3
Jun 25, 2009 3:27 am
Jeremy, you're right, I sidetracked on discussing the elimination of the first-move advantage [or disadvantage], by answering other's responses directly rather...
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John Kipling Lewis
neoliminal
Jun 25, 2009 1:50 pm
I like what you said here about opening moves in some variants being without regard to what the other player was moving. It would be interesting to see a...
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Mats Winther
mawin_se
Jun 25, 2009 6:22 pm
A case in point is Burmese Chess where pieces are dropped, also on friendly pawns, which are immediately relocated. This means that the variant is...
