🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Dec 20, 2009 10:51 PM UTC:
I haven't played it yet, but it does seem less tedious than Go, and the setup phase adds an area of strategy not normally found in Chess variants. I do think it wasn't designed with correspondence play in mind though, and the setup phase could be sped up for correspondence play by allowing multiple drops per turn. I might recommend starting with five pieces per turn and decreasing this amount as tactical responses to the opponent's deployment of forces becomes more important. Perhaps five apiece for the first three turns, then four, three, two, one.
I haven't played it yet, but it does seem less tedious than Go, and the setup phase adds an area of strategy not normally found in Chess variants. I do think it wasn't designed with correspondence play in mind though, and the setup phase could be sped up for correspondence play by allowing multiple drops per turn. I might recommend starting with five pieces per turn and decreasing this amount as tactical responses to the opponent's deployment of forces becomes more important. Perhaps five apiece for the first three turns, then four, three, two, one.