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Sac Chess. Game with 60 pieces. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Kevin Pacey wrote on Sat, Jan 30, 2016 08:53 AM UTC:
I've added the following to the end of the Notes section for my Sac Chess submission (to try to, in the most natural way I can imagine to date, accommodate those who dislike there being a single queen and two amazons in the setup position for Sac Chess):

"Note: to accommodate those who dislike the queen being clearly inferior to amazons both in their power AND in their number in Sac Chess at the start of a game, I can suggest the following fairly natural idea for a modified variant ('Royal Bevy Chess'), i.e. it has a similar setup and the same rules as for Sac Chess. Namely, in the setup position for Sac Chess, switch 2 queens for the 2 amazons, and switch an amazon for the single queen. This idea of having two queens and one amazon in a setup position may have first been used in 'Alekhine Chess', which is somewhat similar to Sac Chess, perhaps; here's a link to it:"

http://www.chessvariants.com/index/external.php?itemid=zAlekhineChess