Chessplus (Decreasing draws result)

                            50Mark  vs  LXIVC

Re8

Which rook is it ?

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Oh, sorry. Rae8

                             50Mark  vs  LXIVC

                            50Mark  vs  LXIVC

Ngf4

                          50Mark  vs  LXIVC

                            50Mark  vs  LXIVC

Nxg2

                           50Mark  vs  LXIVC

                            50Mark  vs  LXIVC

Good game @LXIVC.

Maybe too early to make conclusion regarding this variant.But it seems the power lack  of library pieces will lead to the sparse interaction between pieces.Whether the role of library pieces sufficient to avoid draws is still need further test.

Do you have an opinion ?

I do. I don't think adding pieces will affect the draw rate significantly. In my opinion, there are two ways to reduce draws.

Either change the way pawns work, or redefine the most common drawing situations as a wins. I suppose that adding a piece could work, if the piece was right.

I enjoyed the game. Thanks!

In a tight battle between two pieces configuration,a slight advantage in one side of both should be sufficient to avoid draws.We may notice in above game that white start to collapsing it's defence when white library piece start to out of configuration to intercept black library piece that would ruin white back rank configuration.It make pawn structure in front of white king to be weak.I think the library pieces have given a quite role for winning determination.

@LXIVC. If you interested to play this variant with the pieces function to be switched as in FE chess.We could switch three pieces instead of two.It will give an interesting diversion from monotone pieces function. 

@LXIVC. It just came to my mind that your idea to redefine the most common drawing situation as a wins have inspired to use time on clock to be the determinant of the winner.It is in case of inevitable draws.But whether this means will be accepted wisely.

Using time in clock to determine the winner of draws game  should be applied in FE chess than in regular chess.It is to eliminate the memorization advantage of one player over his opponent.

I don't really have any interest in playing with piece representations. I'm more interested in the actual moves of the pieces, and don't see any point to trying to introduce confusion by swapping the images used to depict them.

What a chess piece really is, is a pattern of movement and of capture, and possibly some other rules relating to the effects it can have on other pieces or on the board, or how it changes its movement in various situations. It is an idea. We use images, or figures to represent the idea for convenience. It is not convenient to arbitrarily swap the images associated with two different ideas. What good would it do? The whole point of playing a game of chess, as far as I know, is to play with the pieces, and this goal is not facilitated by any attempt to make the piece images more difficult to interpret. If that is what you want, why not play blind? Make all the pieces look alike, and require the players to memorize which piece is which.

I have no objection to people playing like that, and a blind game could be fun, but it's not something I'd like to do regularly. I play chess as a calculation contest, not as a memory exercise.

I am willing to play this game again, if you want, and I'll even do it with whatever changes to piece representation you care to make, but I don't see the point of such alterations.

I appreciate your views on FE chess and your favor.

Here is we will play Three pieces switch FE chessplus.It is actually FE chess with three pieces function to be switched instead of two pieces as i have already done in FE chess thread.The initial order of the pieces is Rook,Knight,Bishop as we find in regular chess.For mode 1 of TPS FE chessplus,the order of pieces is rotated once from left to the right direction so it will be Bishop,Rook,Knight.It means Bishop pieces represented Rook's function,Rook pieces represented Knight's funtion,and Knight pieces represented bishop's function.The diagram below will make it clear.

  Initial position : RNB

  After once rotation : BRN

 We call it mode 1 or RNB-BRN mode.

For mode 2 the initial order will be rotated twice .

Initial position : RNB.

After twice rotation : NBR.

It is mode 2 or RNB-NBR mode.

OK,we will play TPS FE chessplus in mode 1.