Kevin Pacey wrote on Mon, Mar 5, 2018 04:44 PM EST:
I just realized that the original setup for my Wide Nightrider Chess idea (in my previous, now edited, post) seems flawed due to e.g. 1.d2-d3 (or 1.i2-i3) 'threatening a nightrider fork' (on White's second or fourth rank) of a Black rook/champion and central piece. This might compel Black to soon rather unproductively move his b- (or k-) pawn forward one square to block the enemy nightrider's path to his rook, or else to develop his nightrider on the other wing to the edge of the board in reply. That's unless Black is prepared to allow the trade of a (champion-guarded) rook for a White nightrider, which I'm not sure is a totally bad idea, especially in the opening phase (and nightriders may be in general fully worth rooks on 12x8, somehow, too). There is also the possibility of a [irritating?!] nightrider fork threat if one of that pieces is first developed to the 3rd rank, towards the centre. A solution that I'm currently preferring might be to use my somewhat less aesthetic(?) backup setup (using the same fast castling rules still), with the nightriders in the corners (i.e. I've in that setup switched all of them for all the rooks, and all the knights for all the champions, on all their respective wings). However, note then that kings might sometimes prove less safe after castling, at least on the kingside compared to chess, and perhaps the nightriders may not often be easily developed without possibly having to move again soon (also, if one goes to the third rank at move one, there is still the [now perhaps far less irritating] possibility of a 'nightrider fork' to think about). My earlier WAD Chess idea in this thread may be slightly problematical, too, as developing all the pieces might still too often prove to be somewhat awkward to arrange, in spite of my upgrading from Waffle to WAD pieces for the [preferred original] setup. Thoughts on either of these variant ideas, anyone?
P.S.: I noticed on the internet (not in the CVP main index) that the name Nightrider Chess has already been used, though perhaps always with a Roman numeral after it to indicate which particular variant of that series of games it is. Also, unrelated, I did some slight editing of my last, long, comment re: the Centennial Chess page.
I just realized that the original setup for my Wide Nightrider Chess idea (in my previous, now edited, post) seems flawed due to e.g. 1.d2-d3 (or 1.i2-i3) 'threatening a nightrider fork' (on White's second or fourth rank) of a Black rook/champion and central piece. This might compel Black to soon rather unproductively move his b- (or k-) pawn forward one square to block the enemy nightrider's path to his rook, or else to develop his nightrider on the other wing to the edge of the board in reply. That's unless Black is prepared to allow the trade of a (champion-guarded) rook for a White nightrider, which I'm not sure is a totally bad idea, especially in the opening phase (and nightriders may be in general fully worth rooks on 12x8, somehow, too). There is also the possibility of a [irritating?!] nightrider fork threat if one of that pieces is first developed to the 3rd rank, towards the centre. A solution that I'm currently preferring might be to use my somewhat less aesthetic(?) backup setup (using the same fast castling rules still), with the nightriders in the corners (i.e. I've in that setup switched all of them for all the rooks, and all the knights for all the champions, on all their respective wings). However, note then that kings might sometimes prove less safe after castling, at least on the kingside compared to chess, and perhaps the nightriders may not often be easily developed without possibly having to move again soon (also, if one goes to the third rank at move one, there is still the [now perhaps far less irritating] possibility of a 'nightrider fork' to think about). My earlier WAD Chess idea in this thread may be slightly problematical, too, as developing all the pieces might still too often prove to be somewhat awkward to arrange, in spite of my upgrading from Waffle to WAD pieces for the [preferred original] setup. Thoughts on either of these variant ideas, anyone?
P.S.: I noticed on the internet (not in the CVP main index) that the name Nightrider Chess has already been used, though perhaps always with a Roman numeral after it to indicate which particular variant of that series of games it is. Also, unrelated, I did some slight editing of my last, long, comment re: the Centennial Chess page.