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Let me start off by confessing that I never learned how to mate with King and Archbishop versus King. I kept stalemating Zillions the one time I tried. Substitute a Unicorn (B+NN) for the Archbishop and I can more-or-less manage.
But after 100 years have passed, I would expect the Raumschach page to have a brief outline of how to force mate with King and three Rooks. Or is it four Rooks? Who is actually playing 3D chess variants nowadays? Does anyone still read Jim Aikin's page on the 4x4x4x4 game Chesseract?
Sam, I'm moving this part of the discussion off Charles' Armies of Faith game page. You make a good point: 'I mean, we have thousands of variants here, yet I don't see people doing any play testing or trying to develop an opening stratefy for their variant. Instead, they move on to their next chess variant invention, leaving a variant with little or no testing, no real sense of strategy, and certaintly no opening library.' S. Trenholm 6/6/07 I have 1 game hanging that I'm still trying to pound into shape, but not very hard [because the !@#$%^&*! thing *won't* put icons up, or keep all the lines straight, or... yes, I have problems with computers], and another that needs playtesting because it is so radical; so I may be guilty of what you said. However, I will cheerfully play any or every one of my games against you, or anyone else who wishes to play them. Every game I've posted has a preset; and every game I've posted is, I believe, playable, or I would not have put them up. I also think they are all good games, or they would not be online [I suspect not everyone would agree with me here, and may wish many were not online]. So offer me a challenge for any game of mine, or offer me a double challenge: one game of your choice and one of my choice. I will cheerfully play *anyone* [maybe not very well], and be happy to discuss tactics and strategy. Joe
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