H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Jan 5, 2018 09:48 AM UTC:
Isn't that exactly what chess variants are: games with non-standard armies and/or non-standard boards? I fail to see how there is anything new in your proposal.
I also don't see the merit of trying different armies on all kinds of different boards. It seems the famous adagium "it only takes 10 sec to invent a new chess variant, and unfortunately some people do" applies here. The idea of using different pieces for each player is a great idea, but what would you get by using, say, 10x8 boards that you don't get on 8x8 boards? It seems a difference just for the sake of being different, without adding anything new. There might be an incentive to do that when the original game has been 'beaten to death', like orthochess, but that doesn't seem to be the case here at all.
Isn't that exactly what chess variants are: games with non-standard armies and/or non-standard boards? I fail to see how there is anything new in your proposal.
I also don't see the merit of trying different armies on all kinds of different boards. It seems the famous adagium "it only takes 10 sec to invent a new chess variant, and unfortunately some people do" applies here. The idea of using different pieces for each player is a great idea, but what would you get by using, say, 10x8 boards that you don't get on 8x8 boards? It seems a difference just for the sake of being different, without adding anything new. There might be an incentive to do that when the original game has been 'beaten to death', like orthochess, but that doesn't seem to be the case here at all.