Economy Chess: capture the board + buy pieces

Hey everyone! In 2012 I had a crazy idea: what if not just material and position is important in chess, but also the number of squares you own? I loved the idea so much that I hired a programmer and made a game out of it: Economy Chess

There was a small community on chess.com playing it and it could be downloaded in the now long gone chess.com/download section. And I had it on my laptop. But it died and I forgot about it. However, I wanted to play it again and a former admin of the group still had the game! 

So its possible to play again! You can download it here Economy Chess Download (windows)
I understand that people don't like to just open a .exe that some random dude posts on a public forum. Unfortunately I cannot do anything else than to promise you that it's not a virus, it's just the game. 

How to play Economy Chess?
See all the rules here in a 4 minute video
These are videos of example games: Boletus_CZ vs DeKaleaas and another game 

These are the basics: conquering a square on the board

Getting income from the board: #squares - #of pieces = income

Purchasing pieces with your money: only on squares you own

Unfortunatly when you open the game, the defaultsettings are not selected. These are the default settings. Those are the rules that play best, the other are variations on the rules.

Somany chessboards!

wow...+1

+1

liked it even tho I had played a handful of weird VAriants

Is anybody willing to play a correspondence game of Economy Chess?

hmm dont get this variant

With each move you can capture squares of the board.

The more squares you own, the more money you receive each turn.

If you got enough money you can choose to buy one or more pieces instead of making a move.

That's it in short.

ok...