Comments by godzilla

T.R. Dawson didn't invent the leo. You must be confused with the grasshopper

Isn't the helmsman the same as the murmillo?

This game is really fun to play and the crowned linepiece queen an interesting idea. but why have marshalls in bishopheavy chess and cardinals in rookheavy chess This is by far the one of the easiest to understand and most interesting of your new games. I however prefer ryuma or dragon horse for primate and ryou or dragon king for chatelaine mainly i'm not much of an english terminologist. Anyway this is readily accessable for me I have tried both games and loved them both however. even though rookheavy seems the more powerful game none of the pieces are worth more than a queen!

your frog is an example of an amphibian which is a compound of two pieces which has more range than it's components. another example would be the governor a compound of of the raumschach unicorn and bishop. even another would be the silver general a compound of japanese pawn or as you call it, the point and ferz. maybe you should make an article on amphibians!

This game looks really cool so does clash of civilizations chess and all it's variants. how about airplane chess? there is a reasonably weak applet to play it on ed friedlander's site or here. And by the way, Jeremy the cobra moves as a rook it is more vunerable than the wall of ganymede chess but has more capture power. Another piece which is related to it is the dev from koksal karakus' giant chess which moves as a wazir but all squares must be threatened for it to be captured. another are sultans pieces from charles gilman's sultans elephant chess but cannot move to part full super squares

has this game been playtested?

This game looks really cool! The only thing cooler would be adding squirrels behind rooks and adding quang trung rooks and shifting the setup one rank forwards so there would still be redeployment space. The squirrels would add more leaping power and the quang trung rooks which capture by leaping over a piece as in checkers but quang trung rooks can only capture one piece in a move. The quang trung rooks could ignore defended pieces and would make the game more interesting. The quang trung rooks would be below zebras. There could also be renn cavaliers below quintesences but that would be wishful thinking

can the queens capture?

this looks interesting with crooked bishops replacing the monstrous cavaliers.However the crooked bishop's move is not related to any sort of mideastern piece, the cavalier was related to the well known gryphon. Maybe you could add renn cavaliers instead of the mideast cavaliers and guards a fusion of the ferz and wazir or maybe replace the queen with the mideast cavalier or as ed friedlander calls it the godzilla and and replace the godzillas that flank the king and queen with queens. maybe this variant i propose could face hawaiian chess

Though the corner squares may appeal aesthetically the take away lots of the rooks power. How about taking away the corner squares and just adding squares behind the champions? Or maybe next to them?

The elephant can reach half the squares on the board. how about replacing elephants with waffles an the sliding general with a panther which moves 1 or two squares in any direction but cannot jump

I am actually working on a variant like this called leapers chess which replaces rooks with wooden rooks, bishops with wooden bishops, and the queen with a centaur which moves as a nonroyal king or as a knight. I am actually writing an entry for it right now!

This game looks interesting but isnt the queen as strong as the rooks?

This game looks really interesting along with millenial chess I have actually thought of a game like this on ten by ten board with the orthochess setup pused one rank forwards so the pawns would not move differntly and adding camels. stewards, quang trung rooks and nonroyal kings

Are members allowed to make presets? If so how do yo make one?

how about an alternate rook which moves sideways as a dabbaba rider and forwards and backwards as a rook and an alternate bishop that moves as an alfilrider parralel to the long diagonal and as a bishop parrallel to the short diagonal? these bout hav interesting types of colorboundness as the rook cannot reach adjacent files and the bishop cannot reach adjacent same colored diagonals. these pieces would capture as there orthochess counterparts

this is an interesting break from the same ol, amazon, this should be of the sam value and would be a intersting to see fighting the amazon what would be even cooler would be a queen plus korean lion

what's the difference between the turret, belfry, mangonel, oxybeles, gastophette, and trebuchet?

the brigadier was also featured in christine bagely jone's zhou xia as destroyer queen