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17 Nov 2001 None I failed to note in my previous comment that my daughter, Rebecca (who is 13), provided significant assistance designing the Pizza Kings. The experience really whet her appetite for chess variants, and she has already sunk her teeth into the Avenging Appetizers. This project has been put on the back burner, however, because we are developing an entry for the 42-squares contest (that does not involve food). - JCL

17 Nov 2001 None The concept of Alphabet Chess has been anticipated, sort of. On the Zillions-of-Games site, you can download a chess variant called Rack and Runes, in which the movement patterns of the pieces take the forms of the runes of the futhorc. There is no bonus for spelling magical druidical words, however. (Hey, maybe spelling the name of an opposing piece would allow you to capture it. I think that might be a novel capture method.) You have inspired me to imagine a giant Shogi variant where the move patterns of the pieces mimic the characters representing their names. Since Japanese piece names are generally binomial, they could start as one character and promote to the other. The possibilities are staggering: Russian, Indian, Arabic, Korean, ... (Egyptian heiroglyphics!) Now that we have both Pizza Kings, and Fighting Fizzies, how about the Beer Batterers, or the Avenging Appetizers? It really was the Mushroom that inspired all this. You should be proud. - JCL

17 Nov 2001 Excellent
I had to digest this for a few days before I could comment on it.
It's artistic, in a strange way. The piece movement diagrams are ascii art! This is an application of my discoveries that I had never imagined!!
Allow me to suggest -- you've seen those chess problem compositions where the position on the board represents a letter of the alphabet? Well, what about Alphabet Chess, where the movement patterns of the pieces pixelate letters and the initial setup spells out a word or phrase?
On a really big board, you could spell out a sonnet? Or maybe a chess variant where the move patterns pixelate a rebus puzzle?
Wow!
You have opened the door to a whole new field of artistic endeavor!
Nick Danger would have preferred it with anchovies.
--
gnohmon

Date	Rating	Comment
17 Nov 2001	None	I failed to note in my previous comment that my daughter, Rebecca (who is 13), provided significant assistance designing the Pizza Kings. The experience really whet her appetite for chess variants, and she has already sunk her teeth into the Avenging Appetizers. This project has been put on the back burner, however, because we are developing an entry for the 42-squares contest (that does not involve food). - JCL
17 Nov 2001	None	The concept of Alphabet Chess has been anticipated, sort of. On the Zillions-of-Games site, you can download a chess variant called Rack and Runes, in which the movement patterns of the pieces take the forms of the runes of the futhorc. There is no bonus for spelling magical druidical words, however. (Hey, maybe spelling the name of an opposing piece would allow you to capture it. I think that might be a novel capture method.) You have inspired me to imagine a giant Shogi variant where the move patterns of the pieces mimic the characters representing their names. Since Japanese piece names are generally binomial, they could start as one character and promote to the other. The possibilities are staggering: Russian, Indian, Arabic, Korean, ... (Egyptian heiroglyphics!) Now that we have both Pizza Kings, and Fighting Fizzies, how about the Beer Batterers, or the Avenging Appetizers? It really was the Mushroom that inspired all this. You should be proud. - JCL
17 Nov 2001	Excellent	I had to digest this for a few days before I could comment on it. It's artistic, in a strange way. The piece movement diagrams are ascii art! This is an application of my discoveries that I had never imagined!! Allow me to suggest -- you've seen those chess problem compositions where the position on the board represents a letter of the alphabet? Well, what about Alphabet Chess, where the movement patterns of the pieces pixelate letters and the initial setup spells out a word or phrase? On a really big board, you could spell out a sonnet? Or maybe a chess variant where the move patterns pixelate a rebus puzzle? Wow! You have opened the door to a whole new field of artistic endeavor! Nick Danger would have preferred it with anchovies. -- gnohmon

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Ratings and Comments for:The Pizza Kings

Ratings and Comments for:
The Pizza Kings