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Villagers Atomic Decline Draft

Hi! While we liked the concept of such a combination atomic chess and villagers chess, this still needs some further polishing and fixing issues.

First of all, the royal touching strategy is very common, and it can be easily used to restrict the movement of some pieces or prepare an attack to explode some pieces or royal. This strategy is very common and there isn't a viable way to stop it.

Second of all, we think that the piece choice does not flow well, as it has very little synergy. As an example, in most games bishops are being underused because it is hard to get them out and are a weaker alternative to a camel.

For this reasons, we are declining this variant. We hope to see a revision of this some day!

Hi! Although this variant is definitely fascinating and has potential, we have found issues in the variant, which need fixing. 

Firstly, the ability for piece coordination is quite little, as often times, one tends to move the rooks and camels for most of the game. The minor pieces (bishops,alibabas) are very underused, as they are blocked by soldiers and tough to move.

Next, royals can touch each other easily, and this variant doesn’t seem to have an existing solution for it. This can lead to a very closed position for both players most of the time, again making it tough to coordinate pieces.

For these reasons, we are declining this variant. However, we look forward to an improved version!

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Collision Course Decline Draft

Hello! Congratulations on finding a unique concept and using it in your variant! Definitely try making revisions.

There are several issues with this variant.

Although the concept is unique, the gameplay basically nullifies any skill level. (I.e If a 1600 is playing a 2000 the 400 point diffrence means nothing if the 1600 gets a winning position in the opening.)

Because of the short time control, players will capture "what they see" and there will ultimately be a random result.

The final issue is capture chains. In the original position the rook and sergants that promote to kings can take a bunch of blue pawns, making gameplay quite forced.

Because of the aformentioned reasons, we are declining this variant. However, this idea has potential, and the community is looking forward to your revision!

amazing!

The King Hunt Decline Draft

Hello!

Through some testing we have found out that:

1. King rush from Red is impossible to stop. (https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/99174084/5/1)

2. The variant is basically an oversized version of Thermopylae and doesn't add anything unique while being extremely long.

For this reasons, we are declining this variant. We hope to see a revision that fixes theese issues.

Chaturango Decine Draft

Hello!

Through testing we found that the variant has an exess of strong pieces which get traded immediately, and there is a lot of kinght hybrids that resemble Knightchess (https://www.chess.com/variants/custom/game/99011468/0/1, you can find a better link) a declinable submission. Also the promotion is misplaced, with pawns promoting very quickly, thus producing more strong pieces.

For theese reasons, we are declining this variant. We hope to see your revision and ideas!

btw i think this should be pinned, it's weird to look in the directory each time to find this

@MistMint Decline Draft on Chaturango

Hello for meeting your first variant! However, we are going to decline this for reasons below:

Because the pieces were placed so questionable(for example, archbishops on the first rank) and randomly, players can hardly make any progress without any blunders.

This variant didn't revise any point of Chaturanja have but just make it worse and far more drawish when shuffling becomes the only viable strategy.

Torpedo seems doesn't work as expected since pawns promote to strong pieces on the 4th rank