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Ultima. Game where each type of piece has a different capturing ability. Also called Baroque. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

H.G.Muller wrote on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 05:58 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

When I was playing this game I simply could not do it with a regular chess
set. Being a fanatic speed-chess player of 5 min. games where you have to
move mostly as a reflex, the chess personalities of the piece images were
simply hard-wired in my brain.

So I made a separate set of pieces, looking nothing like chess men, based
on a set of checkers chips and other pieces of wood. The pawns were just
plain chips (since I don't play checkers, they meant nothing to me, so
no
harm there). The King could of course still be represented as an ordinary
chess King, since it moves like one. But for the Long Leaper I used a
cylinder (remaniscent of a draughts King), for the Immobilizer a Cube
(looked pretty immobile...), for the Coordinator a checkers chip mounted
perpendicular on another (representing a dish antenna, symbolizing its
action at a distance), for the Chameleon a spere (supported on a chip) to
represent a spherical mirror in which every piece would see itself. The
whole set looked quite nice, with a pretty homogeneous style.