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Kevin Pacey wrote on Tue, Nov 19, 2019 08:08 PM UTC:

Stratego is an interesting case - I fail to see why it's not a CV, at least at the moment(!) Here's Google's blurb on whether Stratego is like chess, fwiw: "Stratego has a bigger board, more pieces of more different kinds, and a more complex combat resolution system in which the attacker does not always win, as in chess. - Jan 21, 2015"; I'd still think that Stratego meets Fergus' criteria for being a CV.

Caissa Britannia has a highly mobile royal piece (Q), fwiw, though it moves under some restriction (cannot move through check, I seem to recall) - that could still fit in with what you are saying, it seems.

Another name for one other game you mention is 'Viking Chess', fwiw, though it appears to me (from the wiki) that only one side has some sort of a king:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games#Hnefatafl

It looks like the game of Clobber only has one piece type, and I should note that Fergus' article rules that sort of game out as a CV - it seems that Clobber isn't much different from checkers in this way; Fergus' criteria would also rule out Amazons as a CV:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clobber


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