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Odd Man Out Chess. Capturing pieces transform into the piece with the moves not covered by the captor and captive. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Dec 4, 2008 05:04 AM UTC:
These rules are much too cryptic to make sense of. Some English explication would help.

💡📝John Smith wrote on Thu, Dec 4, 2008 05:52 AM UTC:
Would it be better if I used your Abstract set?

Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 07:22 PM UTC:
What does 'empty' mean? Does it mean that both pieces disappear from the board? If so, it's even more fiendish than the more transparent alternative that I thought of, which was a piece capturing its opposite becoming a Pawn.

💡📝John Smith wrote on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 11:19 PM UTC:
Why, yes. Heeheehee. You could think of it, for example, as it being rude for a Knight to take a Queen.

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