💡📝Kevin Pacey wrote on Mon, Dec 17, 2018 06:36 PM UTC:
Thanks for the warm review, Joe. I am especially happy that you think my chosen starting setup works well for the variant. One possible quibble is that H.G., for one, might disagree that, even on 10x8, the elephant piece (i.e. ferfil) in this game is relatively 'weak', at least compared to a knight (i.e. on 10x8), though I myself tentatively estimate a ferfil's value as considerably less than that of a knight's value on 10x8.
My latest laptop broke down last week, and now I have my old one back, apparently in working condition again.
P.S.: I've never yet seen a definition for what a 'Modest Variant' is. I had had the vague idea that it would be one rather close to FIDE chess somehow (even perhaps requiring that such a variant to be on 8x8, with square cells), but I was never sure of all the implications of the term.
Thanks for the warm review, Joe. I am especially happy that you think my chosen starting setup works well for the variant. One possible quibble is that H.G., for one, might disagree that, even on 10x8, the elephant piece (i.e. ferfil) in this game is relatively 'weak', at least compared to a knight (i.e. on 10x8), though I myself tentatively estimate a ferfil's value as considerably less than that of a knight's value on 10x8.
My latest laptop broke down last week, and now I have my old one back, apparently in working condition again.
P.S.: I've never yet seen a definition for what a 'Modest Variant' is. I had had the vague idea that it would be one rather close to FIDE chess somehow (even perhaps requiring that such a variant to be on 8x8, with square cells), but I was never sure of all the implications of the term.