I was interested in different chess variants before. They're all a waste of time because nobody plays them. Why waste time on these obscure chess variants when you have existing established chess variants? Try Chinese chess, Makruk, Shogi. At least with those you'll be able to maybe find someone to play against online.
Bulldog Chess - Legacy Version (game)
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Drawgood wrote:
I was interested in different chess variants before. They're all a waste of time because nobody plays them. Why waste time on these obscure chess variants when you have existing established chess variants? Try Chinese chess, Makruk, Shogi. At least with those you'll be able to maybe find someone to play against online.
In fact, Drawgood, I think I responded to your unsupportive attitude towards chess variants in a different thread (If I only remember which one).
The fact that these delightful members-created variants don't reach a grand stage of fame doesn't necessarily mean it's not worth the time. Isn't a few members (or 1 even) enjoying it enough to be substantial?
Already, look at the success of IvanKosintsev's Waterloo. it's a newly developed variant, and 4 people have already played it, while at least 2 others are eager to try. Already, at least 5 people were intrigued and eager to try one of Ace569er's grand variants. (I got the honor of playing 2 games of it with him!)
Of course Vickalan variant isn't going to be as popular as the "variants" that you listed. This is for one very good reason: those "variants" (Xiangqi, Shogi, Makruk, etc.) aren't variants at all. They are standardized forms of chess games from various international regions.*** By default, those games are made to be played a lot because of their name.
Vickalan's still at the trial stage, where he/she would like people to try out his new variant; how do you know it's such a waste of time if people haven't played it yet?
All that aside, what I would particularly like to know is why you're picking specifically on Vickalan and not starting your own thread on this subject; not that I'm expecting you to respond.
***On a tangent, calling them variants for the mere reason that they are different from FIDE chess is an insult to their title. (FIDE isn't even the original chess game, so surely, FIDE is too a variant?) In fact, I wrote an entire thread on this subject matter.
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OK, great!
I'll play:
1...Ng6
bowlinggreen: I also see evertVB setup a game for you (here). So looks like you are playing two games.
Watch out - I've played evertVB two times and I lost the first and only got a draw in the second. I will be very impressed if you can defeat him!
(your other game has an angel and joker in it)
You said you needed someone to move for bowlinggreen, so I will. 2. Nf3
You guys can't make moves for each other. If someone makes a bad move and you start to lose then you might blame the other person and no one will care about the game anymore.
I'll wait for bowlinggreen to name his move for this game.
Do you (NoisyEcho) want to play our own game? I'm already in 6 games, and this might be a little crazy, but I'll play one more (just about one move per day, right)? And which game, Bulldog Legacy (same as this one)?
Also, Nf3 can't be played anyway. There is no knight that can move there.
On this thread I'll be waiting for bowlinggreen to make his next move.
Nd3
2...i6
j3
3...Nd6
ng3
4...e5
Bg4
5...h5
bf5
Guard (G): Moves and captures like a king. But no other penalty if attacked or captured.
The rules of castling are similar as in classical chess, however, if castling king-side, the guard moves inward instead of a rook, as there is no king-side rook. On either side, the king still travels two squares. (Note since the board is wider, the king finishes farther from the corner of the board). The rook or guard always finishes adjacent to the king, so for white, the rook finishes on e1, or guard on g1. For black, the rook finishes on f1 or guard on d1. (Note files are now numbered "a-j" with "a" and "j" being the new flanks). As usual when castling, all squares between the castling pieces must be unoccupied.
Other rules of this game are identical with rules of classical chess.