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Gary Gifford wrote on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 05:00 PM UTC:
Thanks for the comments.  For the two detailed comments I would like to
reply further:

Jianying Ji  wrote in part '...you have an amazing approach to designing
chess variants. ... All your game seems very polished ....'
GKG Response: Jianying, thank you very much for the kind words. 
House of Mirrors Chess showed up in my head quite 
unexpectantly while having a discussion with Jeremy Good.
 
Roberto Lavieri wrote in part: '. . . I would put more mirrors, but it is
fine as is now.' 
GKG Response: Roberto, yes, more mirrors is certainly an option. In fact Jeremy
read your comment and did send me a sample of a variant with more
mirrors.
The posted version is the smaller of the 2 I envisioned (short by 3
mirrors and many squares). I think this is good as a starter version. 
With only 7 mirrors I managed to have a little trouble deciding on a few
moves in my first test game with Jeremy.  Reflections and Real pieces can
make moves pretty interesting... and sometimes you really have to think
about the mirror-play.

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