Chess Piece Variants

beebejoe

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29 Jan 10

beebejoe

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29 Jan 10

What are some chess piece variants?

Okay Thanks

irontigran

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29 Jan 10

Originally posted by beebejoe
What are some chess piece variants?

Okay Thanks

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

Ice Cold

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29 Jan 10

Originally posted by beebejoe
What are some chess piece variants?

Okay Thanks

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

irontigran

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29 Jan 10

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...

Ice Cold

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29 Jan 10

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.

greenpawn34

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29 Jan 10

An Archbishop is a Bishop and Knight combined.

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

irontigran

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29 Jan 10

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 🙂

heinzkat

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29 Jan 10

Originally posted by greenpawn34
And a Bishop and Rook combined

That'd be an outrageous combination, imagine all the possibilities

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29 Jan 10

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Badwater

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29 Jan 10

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.

Fat Lady

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29 Jan 10

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.

heinzkat

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29 Jan 10

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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]

Fat Lady

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29 Jan 10

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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.

greenpawn34

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29 Jan 10

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.

heinzkat

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29 Jan 10

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