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Joost Brugh wrote on Tue, Feb 28, 2006 04:50 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

The point Fergus is making is that strong pieces are confined to their own half of the board. Both players can avoid these pieces simply by keeping their Kings on their own halfs of the board. This doesn't really restrict the Kings' mobility. A way to get a draw in a bad position is trading all compound pieces for attacking non-compound pieces, sit back and see that the enemy compound pieces can't do anything against your King. I still think that the game is a harmonic combination of games on these pages making it a good game for a contest celebrating 10 years of Chess Variant Pages.

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Wildeursaian Qi. Variant on 10 by 10 board combining ideas of several existing variants. (10x10, Cells: 100)

💡📝Charles Gilman wrote on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 06:14 AM UTC:

You did read about Wazirs being further promotable on reaching an end rank, didn't you?

Daniil Frolov wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 10:30 AM UTC:

Another one variant: instead promoting to weak wazirs, pawns promotes to queens, gnus and tanks, wich also cannot cross river (cannot rettreat).

Daniil Frolov wrote on Mon, Jun 28, 2010 11:06 AM UTC:

How about this: ompound pieces still cannot cross river, but can check (or 'capture king') through it?

Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Jun 7, 2006 07:08 AM UTC:

Since my last comment I have a posted a variant that relaxes River restrictions in a simpler fashion

It insists that the King and at least half the compound pieces of the same army remain on their own side of the River. This can make for a sudden need to withdraw if enough compounds pieces are captured. How does that sound as an option for Wildeurasian Qi itself?

Charles Gilman wrote on Thu, Mar 2, 2006 07:53 AM UTC:

One point about this variant is the total strength of the array. The
simple
pieces have all the moves of the compound ones twice over. The key could
be
to think of the usual goal of capturing enemy pieces quicker than they
capture yours into gaining offensive advantage by capturing simple pieces
while preserving ones own compound ones and gaining defensive advantage
by
the reverse. The FIDE thought proces is often interms of exchanging
pieces
of the same type. The question here might be in terms of thinking in
terms
mainly of evaluating a compound piece against a number of simple ones
(typically three given the restraints to compounds?).
	All the same I can see that a subvariant in which compound pieces can
indeed cross the River in some limited way would be less divegent from
FIDE Chess and might go down well. A thought occurred to me to allow
crossing orthogonally forward and diagonally backward, or in the Gnu's
case Knightwise forward and Camelwise backward. Within each half of the
board they would be unrestricted, as would promotion on both end ranks. I
could envisage a similar subvariant of Anglis Qi itself, and also of
Alibaba Qi
(http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSdualdirectionv),
an all-compound varaiant whose basic form allows crossing orthogonally or
Knightwise but not diagonally or Camelwise. Perhaps as all three vasic
variants end in Qi the subvariants should substitute some other Chinese
word conveying the divergent crossing. This might be better than the
other
alternative, prefixing with some attributive word resulting in long names
-
as well as being in keeping with the existing Anglis and Wildeurasian
indexing. Suggestions are welcome.

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