Re: Anyone else check out the chess variant by Seirawan and Harper? Capablanca pieces on an 8x8 board

<richardhutnik@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:e785ea5a-7c80-4525-a142-992e5cd0eaf3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> This is the Wikipedia entry:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seirawan_chess
>
> a Capablanca piece (Knight-Rook or Knight-
> Bishop) onto the board into the space vacated.  The Knight-Rook
> (Elephant) and Knight-Bishop (Hawk) are two pieces that remain off
the
> board and can only enter when this happens.  It is a double move
like
> castling, and works like en-passant in that you get once chance with
> the original piece moving off to do that.
> Any comments?
> - Rich

        With all of the chess variants in existence, can we not find
one that has been played enough to ensure that there aren't glaring
flaws in it?
       Also, there's no need to rename these pieces - they already
have plenty of names. Check out the Piececlopedia on the Chess Variant
pages
http://www.chessvariants.org/index/mainquery.php?type=Piececlopedia&orderby=LinkText&displayauthor=1&displayinventor=1&usethisheading=Piececlopedia
for the Empress, Marshall, Chancellor (Rook-Knight combo), and
Princess, Archbishop, Cardinal, Paladin (Knight-Bishop combo).

Robin