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Feeble Chess to Weakest Chess. Some Chess variants with weaker pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

gnohmon wrote on Sat, Jul 6, 2002 04:31 AM UTC:

> orientation of the promoted piece?

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Because I had not playtested I did not specify; nor did I decide in
private. The question did occur to me, but I decided to keep quiet.

In FIDE Chess, promotion is difficult, so it is also powerful, so powerful
that it is usually decisive. In Shogi, promotion is a bit less difficult,
and so although it is powerful it may not be decisive. In Xiang Qi,
promotion is rather easy, but it has so little power that it is rarely
decisive. I see this as a continuum of game-balance decisions.

My impression is that for Feeble/Weakest Chess, promotion should be as
powerful as possible, so that the owner may choose any orientation. If you
do not wish to argue in favor of the contrary, let it so be graven in
stone.