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Greg Strong wrote on Tue, Feb 18, 2020 04:31 PM UTC:

My thoughts -

Zebra: The Camel is the more common complement to the Knight.  I think a Zebra is OK on a 10x10 board but would be less mobile than the Knight because more moves would be off-board (although a Camel is color-bound so also weaker than a Knight, but I think this is OK because a Bishop is a colorbound piece that could be considered the complement of the Rook.)  Also, if you keep the Zebra, I think you should keep the name as-is.

No Draws: I'm not sure how advisible this is.  The point of Stalemate is to give the player who is behind something to play for.  For repetition and 100-move rule, at a minimum, the written description needs to be clarified.  It currently says the "last player to move" wins, but your comment says "last to capture".  And for 100-move, do you mean "last to capture or push a pawn"?  That would make more sense.  And do you mean 100 half-moves, like the Chess 50-move rule?  Or do you really mean 100 full moves?  I think that would be too much and I don't see any reason to increase it at all.  Personally, I'd scrap all of this and leave all the victory/draw conditions as in orthodox Chess, but that is just personal opinion.


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