Kevin Pacey wrote on Sun, Jul 15, 2018 01:32 AM UTC:
Bumping up this thread to repost a diagram of a (earlier rejected) possible setup for the old (10x8) 'WAD Chess' variant idea of mine to re-study at my leisure (note that castling is as in Capablanca Chess [K moves 3 squares sideways in the process], and that Dr. Muller has related that WAD+K can force mate vs. lone K on a 10x8 board); after having issues with other possible setups I tried, I borrowed Wildebeest Chess' idea of starting all bishops on the same side of the board, even though that variant's board has an odd number of files so as to justify the idea more. For a 10x8 board I tentatively put P=1; N=3.38; B=3.75; WAD(or Champion)=4.29; R=5.5; Q=R+B+P=10.25 and K's fighting value=3.2; also note that a WAD piece comes close to the average value for all non-pawn pieces in a chess army, IMHO, possibly in itself making WAD Chess a bit more of an interesting extension of chess. Note that before the endgame, I'd hazard to rate a B at least as valuable as a WAD on average, on a 10x8 board (it seems true for 10x10 with such armies per side, at least, as the commercial webpage for Omega Chess strategy suggests to me) [edit: after some study, the diagrammed setup still seems too ugly, at least, to me. That's on top of the B/c1 beaming towards the P/i7 plus the square h6, for example]:
Bumping up this thread to repost a diagram of a (earlier rejected) possible setup for the old (10x8) 'WAD Chess' variant idea of mine to re-study at my leisure (note that castling is as in Capablanca Chess [K moves 3 squares sideways in the process], and that Dr. Muller has related that WAD+K can force mate vs. lone K on a 10x8 board); after having issues with other possible setups I tried, I borrowed Wildebeest Chess' idea of starting all bishops on the same side of the board, even though that variant's board has an odd number of files so as to justify the idea more. For a 10x8 board I tentatively put P=1; N=3.38; B=3.75; WAD(or Champion)=4.29; R=5.5; Q=R+B+P=10.25 and K's fighting value=3.2; also note that a WAD piece comes close to the average value for all non-pawn pieces in a chess army, IMHO, possibly in itself making WAD Chess a bit more of an interesting extension of chess. Note that before the endgame, I'd hazard to rate a B at least as valuable as a WAD on average, on a 10x8 board (it seems true for 10x10 with such armies per side, at least, as the commercial webpage for Omega Chess strategy suggests to me) [edit: after some study, the diagrammed setup still seems too ugly, at least, to me. That's on top of the B/c1 beaming towards the P/i7 plus the square h6, for example]:
WAD (Champion):