Well, the Queen is also a piece in FIDE chess, so I'm not sure how this helps the argument.
For a game designed for kids, adding a queen gives them a lot of power without introducing a constraint. And the objective, it seems, is to make the game easy enough for kids while introducing them to the notion of constraints of movements.
The queen is literally a combination of a rook and a bishop, so it would be loopsided to have a queen and a rook (or a queen and a bishop).
Better to have just the bishop and the rook, which gets little kids start learning about constraints.
Just my humble opinion (I only landed on this page looking for a place where my kid could play demi chess online, so far I can't find one.)
Well, the Queen is also a piece in FIDE chess, so I'm not sure how this helps the argument.
For a game designed for kids, adding a queen gives them a lot of power without introducing a constraint. And the objective, it seems, is to make the game easy enough for kids while introducing them to the notion of constraints of movements.
The queen is literally a combination of a rook and a bishop, so it would be loopsided to have a queen and a rook (or a queen and a bishop).
Better to have just the bishop and the rook, which gets little kids start learning about constraints.
Just my humble opinion (I only landed on this page looking for a place where my kid could play demi chess online, so far I can't find one.)