Kevin Pacey wrote on Wed, Mar 7, 2018 03:30 AM UTC:
I've seen the odd opinion that it's tough to design a good variant with the high mobility nightriders for play on smaller boards such as 8x8 (Fergus seemed to manage to do well with his 8x8 Cavalier Chess, though).
It's good to see H.G.'s view that nightriders compare well with rooks on 10x8, or on even larger boards, such as for the 12x8 Wide Nightrider Chess idea I'm looking at still. It might not have the frequent ease of piece development in actual games I'm wishing for, but if nothing else the fast castling rules for it may help its cause somewhat, perhaps in comparison to some/many already existing games that use such boards. It'd be nice if software supports variants with such novel castling rules, but I fear they don't, at least without some considerable work.
I've seen the odd opinion that it's tough to design a good variant with the high mobility nightriders for play on smaller boards such as 8x8 (Fergus seemed to manage to do well with his 8x8 Cavalier Chess, though).
It's good to see H.G.'s view that nightriders compare well with rooks on 10x8, or on even larger boards, such as for the 12x8 Wide Nightrider Chess idea I'm looking at still. It might not have the frequent ease of piece development in actual games I'm wishing for, but if nothing else the fast castling rules for it may help its cause somewhat, perhaps in comparison to some/many already existing games that use such boards. It'd be nice if software supports variants with such novel castling rules, but I fear they don't, at least without some considerable work.