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Universal Chess. Missing description (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Carlos Cetina wrote on Mon, Sep 22, 2014 03:32 PM UTC:
Yes, of course, post the prototypes here, Jeremy. 

Not only the description about cannon pawns talks about edge squares but all Rococo's ones. In the rules section I wrote: 

"Rococo's pieces [chameleon, long leaper, swapper, withdrawer, advancer, immobilizer and cannon pawns] are subject of the pertinent adecuation to an 8x8 board, that is, it will be supposed that the game is played on a 6x6 board and, in consequence, the board's edge would be formed by "a" and "h" columns, and 1st and 8th rows."

I have always seen the disjunctive whether to apply Rococo's "edge conditions" or not here in this variant as a minor issue that players could resolve by mutual agreement before a game. In contrast, find two people interested in playing Universal Chess is certainly a huge, giant, colossal problem! 

I appreciate very much your contribution of designing piece icons. To keep adding more pieces to this variant, the main task to be done is standardize the various piece sets into one: the Alfaerie-many.