Re: Is Hera****ian (aka Calvinball) Chess possible?

On Apr 9, 8:52 pm, Quadibloc <jsav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 7, 8:40 pm, Quadibloc <jsav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > But my version, on the 12 by 8 board, offers up to 16,200 variants -
> > all tidy and symmetrical like normal Chess, so it might meet this
> > particular goal.
>
> I kept the original set of versions of Random Variant Chess, and the
> 10 by 8 version I added at the last, but I've replaced the other
> recently added versions (Historical Random Variant Chess and Mutable
> Random Variant Chess) by something which has included their best
> features, but made more organized and rationalized, which I call
> Progressive Random Variant Chess (the Progressive part has to do with
> the placement of the Camel and the Giraffe on the board if they are
> used) and which offers more possibilities - up to 172,620 possible
> variants of Chess on the 12 by 8 board.
>
> Perhaps this might be Hera****ean enough...

I have now added notes to my page on Spectral Realm Chess to cover how
the various Fairy Pieces in Random Variant Chess would be modified in
respect of the possibility of half-step diagonal moves, and I have
added a page on what I call "Half-Shogi Chess" to reduce draws, with
inspiration from Shogi, but without having full unrestricted drops in
the manner of Shogi, which has already been proposed (Neo-C from 3M/
Mad Mate/Chessgi) by others.

John Savard