Looks interesting, anyone had experience... www.omegachess.com

i wonder if one should even bother castling with all those wizards and champions floating around that can attack a king over the pawns from a distance. try this link better

http://www.omegachess.com/home.html

I've fixed the link, thank you...  Not sure about castling either. You can play against a software version of the game, it's a Google Gadget. I haven't just yet (no time).

The game looks fun for people like myself and weaker opponents, it seems to remove the "learned experience" element that Chess has developed.

It seems to have been around awhile; its odd I haven't heard of it before.... but then again Chess.com has gone from zero to hero in two short years.

I prefer to stick to regular chess rather than variants. The plain old fashioned chess is complex enough for me!

intresting. Could chess.com use these wizard pieces I wonder ?

Patzer24 wrote: I prefer to stick to regular chess rather than variants. The plain old fashioned chess is complex enough for me!

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  Though a very good alternative to regular chess is random chess (aka chess960, fischer chess...). It makes you think with no well known patterns, I think it is constructive for your experience.

Which brings up a good point; there's plenty of alternatives with the same old board and pieces.

interesting...

did you see the omegachess puzzles on that link.... hurts my brain.. need beer.

 

i have a hard enough time getting OTB games going... i would have to go back to college to find anyone to get together and make buying it worthwhile 

FYI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_Random_Chess

I have an omegachess set.  Played a few games with it about 10 years ago.

I played my wife at random chess and enjoyed it... she doesn't study the game so it even the play up nicely. We didn't implement all the fischer rules religiously, instead we just ensure the bishops were on opposite colors and played. A lot of fun.

Without too much work, wouldn't a couple of chess varients be possible?

 I'm thinking about using the pre-set boards that are used in thematic tourneys and the like. For example;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But maybe the best thing possible with this is a handicapped opening. eg;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd imagine demand for this will be far from sky high, but I'd consider it a little tweak that'll be nice to have :-)

I thought about handicap as well but my wife balked at the idea of me starting with less material. She thought I would be handing her an easy win.