Check out Modern Chess, our featured variant for January, 2025.

Enter Your Reply

The Comment You're Replying To
Kevin Pacey wrote on Tue, Nov 14, 2017 09:46 PM UTC:

Note to self:

After I slept on it, I'm thinking my 10x8 Phoenix Chess variant idea quite possibly has a significant defect, even with my latest setup, and no matter what castling rules are used (I added yet another option for such rules to think about, by an edit to my post with the latest setup diagrammed). The problem is that either side (perhaps Black will be more prone to disadvantage in this regard) could well have serious problems developing one or both of their phoenix' without sooner or later making some sort of significant concession, especially depending on the play of the opponent. Perhaps an exception would be if some or all of the phoenix' are developed rapidly at the beginning of a game, but this might not make for much variety in the opening phase (plus the Ns or phoenix' might then be best deployed to the b or i-file(s), due to e.g. enemy diagonal sliders, which might be seen as an ugly sort of concession, even if the opponent does the same). In light of this, I'm thinking maybe the original setup also has its points by comparison (e.g. if in that seup a N goes to the centre on the third rank and afterwards its adjacent phoenix takes a side-step, followed by making a second [and authentically] developing move).


Edit Form
Conduct Guidelines
This is a Chess variants website, not a general forum.
Please limit your comments to Chess variants or the operation of this site.
Keep this website a safe space for Chess variant hobbyists of all stripes.
Because we want people to feel comfortable here no matter what their political or religious beliefs might be, we ask you to avoid discussing politics, religion, or other controversial subjects here. No matter how passionately you feel about any of these subjects, just take it someplace else.
Avoid Inflammatory Comments
If you are feeling anger, keep it to yourself until you calm down. Avoid insulting, blaming, or attacking someone you are angry with. Focus criticisms on ideas rather than people, and understand that criticisms of your ideas are not personal attacks and do not justify an inflammatory response.
Quick Markdown Guide

By default, new comments may be entered as Markdown, simple markup syntax designed to be readable and not look like markup. Comments stored as Markdown will be converted to HTML by Parsedown before displaying them. This follows the Github Flavored Markdown Spec with support for Markdown Extra. For a good overview of Markdown in general, check out the Markdown Guide. Here is a quick comparison of some commonly used Markdown with the rendered result:

Top level header: <H1>

Block quote

Second paragraph in block quote

First Paragraph of response. Italics, bold, and bold italics.

Second Paragraph after blank line. Here is some HTML code mixed in with the Markdown, and here is the same <U>HTML code</U> enclosed by backticks.

Secondary Header: <H2>

  • Unordered list item
  • Second unordered list item
  • New unordered list
    • Nested list item

Third Level header <H3>

  1. An ordered list item.
  2. A second ordered list item with the same number.
  3. A third ordered list item.
Here is some preformatted text.
  This line begins with some indentation.
    This begins with even more indentation.
And this line has no indentation.

Alt text for a graphic image

A definition list
A list of terms, each with one or more definitions following it.
An HTML construct using the tags <DL>, <DT> and <DD>.
A term
Its definition after a colon.
A second definition.
A third definition.
Another term following a blank line
The definition of that term.