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Herb garden chess. Variant on 7 by 12 board with additional combination pieces. (12x7, Cells: 84) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Anonymous wrote on Thu, Sep 26, 2002 04:43 AM EDT:Poor ★
Sigh, I cannot rate this one 'good', alltho 'poor'
sounds a bit too harsh for me. The white side has
too big an advantage right from the start:

* It has the priviledge to advance a pawn with a double step
directly onto the middle line. Black cannot mirror this move.

* The centaurs' pawns are unprotected and immediately targeted
by the bishops after a central pawn has moved. The only defense 
I see is to advance the knight's pawn one step.

In consequence, white can advance both the king and the queen's
pawns two steps and still has the initiative. 

Possible improvement of the game: Rearrange the opening area,
add a handicap to white's first move.

A last point: I love the extended castlings of the two garden variants.

--J'org Knappen