Comments by Zhedric Meneses

Hmmmmm... I think you're right about the last line. It is better for the riders to be in the last rank so the "minor" pieces can develop first but for some reason I haven't thought about it when making the setup, Woopsies!

if I'm not mistaken, it would be [WzB]

if I'm wrong, please correct me, I don't know fully get how to represent bent riders

Hello

I tried to program this game to Zillions but I can't figure how to set the win condition

I will probably replace one of the new pieces with something like Vao and make the Ox move 1 Space Diagonally personally but hey, my bad opinions. I think adding the new pieces is good anyways since it compliments the Knight and Ox.

The many pieces promoting into a queen reminds me of shogi. just a suggestion but maybe it'd be better if Marshall and Cardinal promote into a Nightrider+Rook and Nightrider+Bishop pieces respectively and the knight can either promote into Scepter or Nightrider

wait, giraffe is used for 4,2 or 3,2 leaper? i thought it's used for 4,1 leaper

How did the pictures even got squished

I just saw the variants and wow they're interesting

I would love to join the tournament but I sadly won't because of school

I will instead say Good Luck to the tourneys

can this be approved now?

just asking but why not the other ultima pieces in alfaerie

For RNN: Emperor since it's a very strong piece

For RpcRF: Mortar since it's a strong Cannon

For BWDD: Archbishop Cardinal or Pope since it's a strong Bishop

I dunno why but I'll name them Kyrin and Phoenix respectively

Probably because they remind me of the Chu Shogi pieces with the same name fsr

I'll just call them Gryphon and Aanca at this point

nice choices for the icons of the promoted pieces

While we're on the topic of mythical creatures, I wonder how many of them appeared in Chess Variants

I only know there's Unicorn, Dragon(?), Gryphon/Griffon, Aanca/Anqa, Kirin, and Phoenix

To Be Honest, I prefer a setup where the King Queen pair is switched with the Missionaries and the Queen is now the Amazon and vice versa

yeah it may break the Original FIDE setup but it allows the weaker pieces to develop faster without the stronger ones joining in as well which I prefer and for Castling, I would just allow the King castle with the Sailor

but that's just my preference, you do you, the current setup is good enough for me to play on and not ruin the variant for me

Hello

I think I'm going to change pieces a bit rn

The Unicorn now moves like Bison(Camel+Zebra) instead of Gnu(Camel+Knight)

also, there are now 5 "major" pieces, the 4 being the royals and one that moves like a Squirrel(Knight+Alfil+Dabbaba) whose royal name is Sovereign

basically, you have to choose 4 of them to be the royals and then the remaining one is placed where the Zebra was(yes, the Zebra is replaced by a non royal "major" piece)

lastly, as an optional rule, you may not have the same non royal "major" piece

I'm not going to update the page for now since it's night rn

this is just for 16Chess with Updated Rules

just asking but what's a fortress draw