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Heavy Gravity Chess. Chess with heavy gravity, Knights can't jump, Queens, Bishops, and Rooks are limited to 4 spaces per move, Kings move 1 diagonal. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Joe Joyce wrote on Tue, Mar 13, 2007 04:32 PM UTC:Can't rate this yet because I haven't played it, but it looks really nice. It's obviously well-balanced and 'easy' to play. And it's sort of the opposite of a couple of his last games. In those, the board was stretched, and here, the pieces were 'shrunk'. A universal effect was applied to each part of the game in both cases. This is a very rare occurrence in chess design, done to very good effect. I look forward to playing this. That it's unknowingly similar to a Betza game is certainly a point in its favor.