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Game Courier Tournament #4: An Introductory Semi-Potluck. A tournament to feature games good for introducing people to Chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Joe Joyce wrote on Thu, Dec 3, 2009 03:37 AM UTC:
I'll sign up, and offer Great Shatranj [D version] again, although Modern Shatranj is my most chesslike game. Modern [R version] was played in the last tournament, and a little variety is nice. Besides, Great is a better game. It does, however, require you to attempt to make a rules-checking preset. I do not think that will offer you any difficulties, but if the promotion rules pose a problem, you could use a default 'any lost piece' promotion rule instead of the 'only 1 of a pair or a guard' rule in place, because it is unlikely to make any difference. Offhand, I don't remember playing a game where a pawn was actually promoted, much less 2 pawns from the same side.