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Trumpisten Chess. A game with trump squares. (5x11, Cells: 51) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Gerd Degens wrote on Mon, Mar 3 12:24 PM EST:

A name change: Trumpisten Chess instead of Trump Chess

💡📝Gerd Degens wrote on Mon, Mar 3 12:25 PM EST:

This page of mine is ready for publication for the following reasons:

The rules are clear, unambiguous, and easy-to-understand.
The rules are comprehensive.
There is a locally-hosted setup image, or the setup is the same as Chess.
Locally-hosted images are being used for pieces, or only Chess pieces are being used.
No code on the page is broken, or it has no code.

H. G. Muller wrote on Mon, Mar 3 01:09 PM EST in reply to Gerd Degens from 12:25 PM:

"Cannot be played on" is too vague. I suppose you mean "cannot be moved to or passed through".

I could not find the Amazonrider in the Piececlopedia at all. So why is it marked as "different from Piececlopedia"?

The description of the Queen is needlessly cumbersome. Much better would be to just say "slides in all 8 directions, but not further than 3 steps". That the Play-Test Applet generated such a cumbersome description is due to the cumbersome XBetza definition of its move in the Interactive Diagram; this could have simply been Q3.

If the Pawns's double push is not an initial move, but can be played from anywhere (and there is no e.p. capture), you might as well write the Pawn move as fW2fmF. (Or, equivalently fR2fmF.)

Note that n for non-jumping on a W or F is meaningless, and is therefore interpreted as something else. Namely creation of e.p. rights on the square of origin. Which doesn't hurt here, since no piece can e.p. capture, but still is strange / confusing.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Mar 4 03:29 PM EST in reply to Gerd Degens from Mon Mar 3 12:24 PM:

A name change: Trumpisten Chess instead of Trump Chess

Does this new name mean anything? It sounds like you're trying to combine Trump with Rumpelstiltskin.

H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Mar 4 04:48 PM EST in reply to Fergus Duniho from 03:29 PM:

Well, Trumpelstiltskin would not be a bad name!

Aurelian Florea wrote on Tue, Mar 4 10:36 PM EST in reply to H. G. Muller from 04:48 PM:

:)!

💡📝Gerd Degens wrote on Wed, Mar 5 02:35 AM EST in reply to Fergus Duniho from Tue Mar 4 03:29 PM:

Name inspires fantasy, what more could you want?

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Mar 5 11:43 AM EST in reply to Gerd Degens from 02:35 AM:

Name inspires fantasy, what more could you want?

I was originally asking about what the name meant, because having a meaningful name is something more I could want.

💡📝Gerd Degens wrote on Thu, Mar 6 02:30 AM EST in reply to Fergus Duniho from Wed Mar 5 11:43 AM:

The name is partly self-identifying as far as the term 'Trump' is concerned, and is partly a fantasy name, like many in the alphabetical index. In any case, it is unique, which it should be according to the notes in 'Post Your Own Game'.