Originally posted by sonhouse Well regular chess already has merged pieces: The queen, rook and bishop merged so maybe that is how they thought about their version.
Originally posted by tefeather Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seirawan_chess. Yasser created two new hybrid pieces.
Totally impractical, Chess variants has to be easy, no more pieces, no more squares. Randomfischer is playable, is Chess. But when you think an exotic variant the result is a different game.
Even the chess960, just few people like and play that game
Best variants are those that We can play with the stuff we already have at home, so, same board, same chessmen