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Zonal Chess. Board has special `zones' at both sides. Commercial game of 1970's. (Cells: 104) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
George Duke wrote on Thu, Oct 18, 2007 05:34 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
The great North American Grandmaster Sammy Reshevsky endorsed Zonal Chess, a bona fide Chess Variant. The flanks are precisely the 'Zonal Areas'. The changes of direction permitted for a 'Rider'(Queen, Bishop, Rook) are presumably any of 45, 90 or 135 degrees, according to the piece. ''Several turns in a move'' permitted actually means an amazing 7 or 8 possible changes of direction for a Queen in the Zone with specific favourable piece placement. The incentive will be to utilize the 36 staggered squares(flanks and beyond) by placing Rook, Bishop, Queen there, availing the opportunity to move as specified like a Bent Rider. 'Bent Rider' is used advisedly in that here there could be up to five steps and then the (one or first) change of direction. Fine work.