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Odin's Rune Chess. A game inspired by Carl Jung's concept of synchronicity, runes, and Nordic Mythology. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Gary Gifford wrote on Sun, Jun 19, 2005 06:58 PM UTC:

This is to answer Greg Strong's good questions.  

Q1 ... a King cannot do a 'move/relocate' function with the other
King.'  Why is this?  If King #1 is adjacent to a Valkyrie, can it not
make a move/relocate move like a Valkyrie?  And if the other King is
in-line, why can it not move/relocate that King?
A1: The answer is that these would result in meaningless or 'null'
moves.  For example.

Imagine this set up on a certain file: Where '-' = space and
1 = King 1 and 2 = King 2 and V = Valkyrie.  

- - - - 2 - - - 1 V    Here, if a King (next to a Valkyrie) could relocate
the other, we could get:

- - - - 1 - - - 2 V    It is as if no move was made.  Or, we could get

- - - - 1 - 2 - - V    But this is positionally the same as 

- - - - 2 - 1 - - V   Inwhich we just moved King #1.

Note that Mike Nelson deserves the credit for initially realizing the
redundancy and null factors.  He discovered this while working on the
Odin's Rune Chess Zillions .zrf.  I agreed 100% with his conclusions and
his zrf rule implementations.


Q2:  I assume that the Forest Ox cannot use it's optional riffle capture
to capture a friendly piece.  Correct?
A2: Yes.  The Forest Ox only takes down the enemy, even when using its
horns for the optional adjacent square capture factor.

Note the the Odin's Runes Chess ZRF plays correctly by the rules so one
can get a good feel for the game using that (if he or she has a registered
copy of Zillions).

Thanks for commenting.