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What are some chess piece variants?

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Originally posted by beebejoe
What are some chess piece variants?

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well, insted of a queen being Rook+Bishop it could be Rook+Knight

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Originally posted by beebejoe
What are some chess piece variants?

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ficgs.com has a variant called Big chess, check it out, it's 64 pcs on a 16x16 board.

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Originally posted by Ice Cold
ficgs.com has a variant called Big chess, check it out, it's 64 pcs on a 16x16 board.
wow, that would make a "bad bishop" even more painful 😕
I dont know how AxS does it...

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Originally posted by irontigran
wow, that would make a "bad bishop" even more painful 😕
I dont know how AxS does it...
The large board give piece values a twist. Knights are not nearly as good as a bishop.

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An Archbishop is a Bishop and Knight combined.

And a Bishop and Rook combined is called something else....a Brook?

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Originally posted by Ice Cold
The large board give piece values a twist. Knights are not nearly as good as a bishop.
I have a book called something like "rethinking the chess pieces"
they talk about how value changes on board size. big boards knights sucked, while 6x6 boards knights were better than rooks 🙂

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
And a Bishop and Rook combined
That'd be an outrageous combination, imagine all the possibilities

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You change nothing! No soup for you!!

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
An Archbishop is a Bishop and Knight combined.

And a Bishop and Rook combined is called something else....a Brook?
A chancellor is a rook and knight - Capablanca chess.

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Originally posted by Badwater
A chancellor is a rook and knight - Capablanca chess.
A chancellor can checkmate a lone king on its own, with no help from any other pieces (Black or White). This happens if the king is in a corner and the chancellor is a knight's move away from it.

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Originally posted by Fat Lady
A chancellor can checkmate a lone king on its own, with no help from any other pieces (Black or White). This happens if the king is in a corner and the chancellor is a knight's move away from it.
You're confusing it with the "Amazon", a King on h8 would still be allowed g8 in case of a chancellor [edit]on f7[/edit]

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Originally posted by heinzkat
You're confusing it with the "Amazon", a King on h8 would still be allowed g8 in case of a chancellor
You're right (assuming you meant the chancellor was on f7). I'm getting confused again. It's actually the archbishop which can checkmate on its own - e.g. king on h8, archbishop on f6.

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Originally posted by heinzkat
That'd be an outrageous combination, imagine all the possibilities
Yeah a Brook would be a great piece to have.

Get rid of the Queen, she's a liability anyway.

A Brook you can bring out early on in the opening and terrorise your opponent.

Of course the openings would have to re-named The Brook Gambit,
The Brook's Indian...Yes a Brook is the boy for me.

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
Yeah a Brook would be a great piece to have.

Get rid of the Queen, she's a liability anyway.

A Brook you can bring out early on in the opening and terrorise your opponent.

Of course the openings would have to re-named The Brook Gambit,
The Brook's Indian...Yes a Brook is the boy for me.
When you lose that piece, you're broke