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Vyrémorn Chess. Large variant on two overlapping square boards. (Cells: 132) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Thu, Sep 20, 2007 12:24 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
'STUV' The Inventor answered my 2004 Comment a year ago, no other Comments intervening--for a 1999 Number 1 Contest Winner! And no Preset to keep Vyremorn fresh. McDonald's design philosophy includes reckoning 'total piece count, number of opening moves, types of moves...to maintain the ratios that exist in traditional chess'. A Pawn in the Field is already promoted just by exiting its native court. No move ever fully transits the field into the opposite Court, but the field can be bypassed. Some similarity in varying degree to divisions, areas and/or blockages within the board structure itself of Gala, Chess with Terrain, Novo Chess, Eight Stone(pieces actually), In the Bin, Conveyor, and Big Outer. Vyremorn and Eight Stone are very playable, and Novo and Gala of great historical importance.