Beast719 wrote:
Knights: Are you having a laugh? The last time that cavalry was used in a real war situation was at Beenie during the ill-fated charge of the Light Brigade. Horses are an anachronism in the modern world and in most European countries they are now used only for food. Instead replace the Knight with a modern tank and instead of an L shaped move let its move be the diagonal of a rectangle.
Pawns: What are they supposed to be? (From the medieval acronym Peasants And Women later with advent of N into English - becoming Pawn???) As a great philosopher once said "Children are the future" and so they should be in chess. The pawns should be children and they should move one or two forwards or backwards depending on what they feel like. Needless to say Bishops will not be allowed on adjacent squares to the pawns.
Chess was invented more than a hundred years ago and since its inception the world has changed beyond recognition but chess has stuck steadfastly to its old traditions stuck in a time-warp. As we near the beginning of a new millennium I think it would be a good time for chess to update: to get with it; to modernise and so retain its appeal to the next generation of younger players.
There must be literally hundreds of ways of doing this so I have come up with three - my triplet of ideas:
Bishops: when chess was invented the church was actually quite powerful and through torture and repression most of the Western world was forced to attend mass. In the modern era where less than 1% of the population actually believes any of this Religious schtick any more and even fewer go to church it is an anathema that Bishops are still so powerful on the chess-board. I would propose that they are greatly emasculated: they still move diagonally but only one square at a time. And they should be multi-denominational.Knights: Are you having a laugh? The last time that cavalry was used in a real war situation was at Beenie during the ill-fated charge of the Light Brigade. Horses are an anachronism in the modern world and in most European countries they are now used only for food. Instead replace the Knight with a modern tank and instead of an L shaped move let its move be the diagonal of a rectangle.
Pawns: What are they supposed to be? (From the medieval acronym Peasants And Women later with advent of N into English - becoming Pawn???) As a great philosopher once said "Children are the future" and so they should be in chess. The pawns should be children and they should move one or two forwards or backwards depending on what they feel like. Needless to say Bishops will not be allowed on adjacent squares to the pawns.
Any other ideas?
Are you having a laugh?
Is he having a laugh?
As we near the beginning of a new millennium...
Blimey, that came around again quick!