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Jeremy Good wrote on Tue, May 23, 2006 11:57 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Great cartoon, Gary! Very amusing. Variant looks a lot of fun. You keep finding new incentives for me to put my king in danger, don't you? Hehe.

💡📝Gary Gifford wrote on Wed, May 24, 2006 12:34 AM UTC:

Jeremy: Thanks for the comment and for making the nice pre-set. As for the game, I'm glad to see you appear intrigued. In this game there is actually motivation to move one's King toward the enemy camp. Such movement can earn you an extra Bishop, Knight, and a Rook... of course, there is some risk involved. And, if you decide to play it safe, yet your opponent takes the risk and is successful, then you can find yourself be behind in material. So, there is sort of a struggle in this one between King safety and added material.

Jeremy Good wrote on Wed, May 24, 2006 01:57 PM UTC:

Not as much motivation as in the wild Ibu Ibu Chess! ;-)

💡📝Gary Gifford wrote on Wed, May 24, 2006 08:42 PM UTC:

Jeremy: I was mentioning 'motivation' in an implied reference to Fide Chess, where it is typically best to leave the King on the first rank [and castled] and only venture the King outward when, for example:(a) one is approaching the endgame, or (b) Queens and Rooks are off the board.

Jeremy Good wrote on Thu, May 25, 2006 01:36 AM UTC:

Naturally.

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Wed, May 31, 2006 02:55 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

hey this looks good, i like the idea of these pieces dropping pieces the
further up the board they go, should make for interesting chess, well
done.
(zrf?)

💡📝Gary Gifford wrote on Wed, May 31, 2006 04:19 AM UTC:

Thanks Christine, for the comment and question about zrf - There is no zrf in the works for this game; but if someone with the time and know-how wants to make one, I have no objection. On a different note, it should be noted that Jeremy Good deserves credit for making the pre-set... he actually made several and took time to ask me which one I liked best. Thanks again, Jeremy.

💡📝Gary Gifford wrote on Tue, Jul 25, 2006 12:58 AM UTC:

I was surprised to find a java applet version of this game.  The applet
plays relatively weak, but gives you a good feel for the game.

If you want to try the game out and play around with the King and Royal
Magician promotions aspect, the link is:

http://www.pathguy.com/chess/RoyalMag.htm

(zzo38) A. Black wrote on Tue, Nov 12, 2013 11:57 AM UTC:

How is pawn promoting in this variant?

💡📝Gary Gifford wrote on Tue, Nov 12, 2013 09:51 PM UTC:

Pawns promote as in chess. You can play the game here: http://www.pathguy.com/chess/RoyalMag.htm  The program is rather week, but it moves fast and will give you a good idea of how to play the game.

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