Chess... 2? Blasphemy, I say. Chess has changed over the centuries, but it was never given a new name, it just stayed as "chess." And the way it appears to me is that it takes the "strategy" aspect out of the game. Like with some RTS games, it's not a question of tactics, it's a question of who has the best units. The purpose of chess is to see which of the two people, with equal resources, can defeat the other. This appears to change that entirely.
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This is not such a bad idea?
There is a new way to win, crossing the midline of the board with your king, making "draws" unseen
It's just to easy to the midline, could be to the endline instead?
Having diferent sets of pieces makes it senseless though. It's like computergames. You always find out that one character/weapon/army type is the best one.
Fischer was actually right for world champions, but what he seemed not to notice is that 99.9999%+ of chess players will never be anywhere near the level where they can convincingly hold and convert a tiny opening advantage based on being up on the latest theory. Everyone else can get away with just knowing some patterns of the opening and playing it by ear.
The idea of normal people updating their databases every year with the "latest lines" is much further from reality than Fischer ever was.
I want to know what your thoughts are on this dynamic variant of classical chess.To me it appears cheesier, less appealing, and over all is very poorly designed. Here is a quick overview:
The games now adds in 6 different "races" to play as, making it pointless to memorize openings.
There is a new way to win, crossing the midline of the board with your king, making "draws" unseen
There is a chance that when a piece is taken, that attacking piece will also be taken with the sam action.
This game just seems to be an imitation of chess, claiming to be better than it. And it just reeks with terribleness.
P.S. This is a wuote of Bobby Fischer that they have on the website: “I’m finished with the old chess because it’s all just a lot of book and memorization”
Here is the original article: http://ludemegames.com/chess2/