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Storm the Ivory Tower. A Smess adaptation of Chinese Chess. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Sep 9, 2003 11:34 PM UTC:
Here's what I'm thinking of doing now. When beginning a move within their own Ivory Tower, Yahoos and Ninnies must move against the arrows instead of with them. This would replace the exit-move. Any Yahoo move would automatically take it out, and any Ninny would be out in no more than two moves. This doesn't violate the spirit of Smess as much as arbitrary borders do, because I can envision a whole class of contrarian Smess pieces, which move against arrows rather than with them. I may make future Smess variants that include such pieces.