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Oh! It's now a long time since I last visited these pages. But it's always gratifying to learn that some people still play my game and have fun with it. I appreciate very much your comments. -Mr Söderqvist's remark about the K.O. Rule is highly interesting!! It could inspire another variant for this game. I only detect one wrong thing: if, as you say, it is white's turn, and this player moves a pawn or another piece into the center, then the following turn it is the black who suborns for the first time. Later, it will be the white player who would have to avoid suborning. Thus, in this scenario (as you pointed, quite frequent) it would probably result in the center remaining empty, 'guarded' by both players, who dare not enter it (until the situation changes). In most chess-like games it is important to place one's pieces in the center squares, but in this case it is even more. The center square (called '4') is terribly powerful. But that has never been a problem in any of the games I have played!! because it's also a risky position, and it probably remains empty throughout the whole game. It's always so threatened that neither player dares enter it. (Actually, one could say that the real objective of the game is to create such favourable conditions that allow you to be the first to safely enter the centre cell). Anyway, as I said above, the proposal is very interesting. I shall try the game with the K.O. Rule variation, I find it's an appropiate contribution :) -And as for the Horses being too powerful... well, in the games I have played the Horses never got to be a decisive piece. And they only control 28 cells... if they are placed in the centre cell (to read what I think about the centre being so important, have a look at the previous paragraph, hehe). -Now I want to propose another variation to your keen intellects. I think you could have some fun with it. And it's quite simple: 'Each player starts the game with 5 coins in his/her hand. Any time a Diplomat suborns an enemy piece, that player pays a coin (the coin is removed from the game). If one player runs out of funds the corresponding Diplomat(s) will no longer be able to suborn any piece. Players may suborn as many consecutive times as they wish, as long they have enough money to do so.' I can think of some subvariants: -Change the number of coins per player -Any time you suborn, you pay a coin to the other player (instead of removing it from the game) -Some pieces are more expensive (Pawn = 1 coin, Horse = Bishop = 2, Diplomat = Rook = 3) -You can earn coins somehow (for example capturing enemy pieces... or losing one's pieces!!) And that is all for the moment!! Thank you for trying my game, I really hope you have fun with it.
Have you seen that it's possible to purchase a round board with Lewis pieces on the following link. It's remarkably beautiful. http://www.circularchess.co.uk/ownboard1.htm /Mats
Nine years(!) later I came back to this page. I still play this exellent game occationally, mostly because it's quick and because I happen to have the nice wooken board lying around that I made (on the backside of a Tree-player chess board which I also made at the time). I must say this is one of my all time favorite games and *the* favorite chess variant. I decided to do something to promote this game, so I created a Wikipedia article for this game today, where you can also see a photo of my homemade plywood board. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomat_chess Many thanks for this game Carlos! [Edit] I also found an error in the initial position of the pieces: The outer circle is line 1 (a1-n1), not line 3 (a3-n3).
So, a couple months ago, I wondered about a circular board that uses the center.
I figured someone must have invented it, and looked through CV.
Apparently my google skills are weak, because I didn't find this or any other. :-(
So I began working on it.
It took some thinking, but I more or less hammered out the rules on paper.
Today I stumble across this! It has identical movement rules to what I have come up with! Brilliant!
Also, this looks to be a nice little variant.
If only I had found Diplomat Chess before I spent that time reinventing the round rules......
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