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Barasi Chess. Game named after inventor with Berolina pawns can also move backwards; other pieces can only move forwards. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Sep 13, 2004 07:49 AM UTC:

Regarding 'promotion of pawns is as usual', does this mean to pieces as
they exist in the array, i.e. irretractable ones, or to the pieces that
FIDE Pawns are promoted to, that is, symmetric ones? Is it compulsory? The
whole point of promotion traditionally is to give further moves to a piece
that would otherwise have none. Indeed it would seem more useful in this
variant to allow promotion of 1st-rank pieces to 2nd-rank ones!
	The 2nd-rankpiece itself is certainly an interesting one, and I as yet
have no distinctive name for it. It is most like the pieces that I term
Silveryeoman (inc. backward diagonal but not backward orthogonal) and
Copperyeoman (vice versa).

Flowerman wrote on Thu, Feb 18, 2010 07:13 AM UTC:

Can pieces check enemy king backward?For example, if white rook is on B7 and black king on B2, is it check?

H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Apr 11 05:34 PM UTC:

This game isn't described very well. Especially 'promotion as usual' is a bit vague, and seems to make little sense. Does the Zillions implementation shed any light on this?

Bn Em wrote on Fri, Apr 11 07:08 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 05:34 PM:

As far as I can tell the Zillions version agrees with the interpretation you've gone with in the diagram, with ‘promotion as usual’ meaning mandatory promo to NBRQ upon reaching the last rank. Which is the only obvious interpretation of the wording, even though does leave the pawn stranded there.

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