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Sixteen Pawns. Trade a queen for 8 extra pawn. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Marco Silva wrote on Fri, Jun 16, 2006 03:54 PM UTC:Average ★★★
I once saw the last arrangement of pawns known as a game called 'trapeze'.

Elevator. Three-dimensional chess variant with moving elevators and walking, vaulting and flying pieces. (4x(8x8), Cells: 192) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Marco Silva wrote on Fri, Jun 16, 2006 07:23 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
so, when you're saying it is abnormal to think of the cells as platforms
when considering flying pieces, you mean:

it does not make sense if they were 2x2 platforms, because if a Flying
piece were to go up, the piece has to move into the shaft and go through a
one-way door in the platform. If, however, the piece were to go down, when
it reaches the shaft, it could just jump down onto the platform below!

i believe this is what you mean.

one idea for a variant may be to allow pieces to jump down to the adjacent
lower level, but not upward.

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