Comments by danielmacduff

Yay! My problem is solved. May I suggest a random article button?

Overly large, not every piece described, some incongruencies (ie. West and East General, also not represented.)

8/13/13: Wow.  Just wow.  That was harsh.  Why not pursue massive sizes of game?  But, still, you need to fix the lack of pieces!

Another thing that would be great is an offline app.  Yup.

That's fine. Most of my ideas started as simple notes.  I make few changes when sending them to the pages, and there may be holes.

How do Spearmen promote?  Do they?

I like it.  Two things to note.

1. Could a Queen push the last Pawn onto the last enemy pawn, which on the last rank, promoting it and tying the game?

2. You should make a fun variant with different armies for the clans.

Incredible idea!  The only question is what should come next...

How could it move to the Alfil square?

I can understand that.  I never am good at explaining (or creating!) rules.

I cannot reach the animated file.  The link 404's.

I thought it was one of the best battle variants I've seen.

All righty.  I am starting an entirely unofficial design contest for the tenth team.  I will pick out the five ideas I like most out of all I get by 2014, and whoever's idea I like the absolute best will get to name the tenth world.

Really Nice Game.

Yes, indeed, it would.  I hate staring at posts removed but still indexed.  It irks me.  And as to the website being dead, I think it just about is.  Perhaps a design contest might intrigue ex-varianteers?

Sadly, the link is broken.

How does one go about publishing one's game on Game Courier?  Can I start from scratch, or is it necessary to have a preset and edit it?  Do I just leave to the editors?  It doesn't appear to be as cut-and-dry as putting things on the Pages is.

Some while back, I posted a comment on how perhaps there should be a CVP app.  

http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=30079

I realize how difficult that would be, but it seems that an app implementation of Game Courier would be more useful than a Maharajah-for-Hire.

I think there needs to be a chess variant design contest. Maybe a 14-piece, 20-square contest for 2014?  Perhaps something else clever.

It looks interesting.  I have one mysellf called Warlord Chess.  I didn't
know the search had expanded so much.  It seems there are new chess
variants there every month.  They even have hexagonal chess now
(Glinski's, from the look of it).

The Queen could be the Upside Down cake.  It moves as a Rook up and then as a circular King until it turns sideways, when it can move as a Rook, wnd then as a circular king in the same direction u til it turns down, when it again moves as a Rook.  It can't leap, nor can it stop during the Circular King movement. Seems interesting.  It's a killer on an open board, but is completely dependent on one square being open.  Why the name and idea?  It's an Up-Side-Down KK.

It is intriguing to note the occassional power difference between the maharajah and the sepoys when applying it to chess variants.  For instance, Jupiter-applied M&S produces a terrible beast while Shogi produces a piece that some may think is not itself powerful enough for its board.

Dear Everyone,

First of all, this is not fiction... I hope.

There was a large hex variant on the pages called neptune, featuring pieces
such as princesses, crooked bishops (not what they were called), and
"space eaters" that swallowed squares.  Does anyone else remember this? 
What happened to it?  And, perhaps most spookily, why has every trace of it
disappeared like squares in the Space Eater's path?

Thank you for your thoughts, theories, answers, comments, etc.

Daniel MacDuff