Interesting Chess variant invented in Australia

The other night at the club I met the inventor of an exciting chess variant called Chessplus. The basic idea is that on your move you can move on to any square occupied by one of your own pieces and create a new piece with the combined power of the two pieces. Basically you have the same power but can increase it exponentially. It is not always advantageous to merge as if captured the merged piece loses both pieces. A strong feature is that elegantly designed pieces connect and separate seamlessly. It has been endorsed by several GMs . For more info go to chessplus.com, any thoughts opinions would be appreciated

That sounds very interesting, berningfast.

So, if a king can merge with a pawn, does that mean no more smothered mate?

Also, would a queen gain anything, if it merged with a bishop?

Or with a rook?

Certainly less than Tommy Hilfieger pays them to wear their clothes.

As no GM has been named, not is it a known GM thread starter, I'd say not much.

Well Max Illingworth is one Aussie GM that has supported it, there is one American named on Chessplus.com, I guess that is a l

loose interpretation of several. No Valerse the king cannot merge that is a rule, If a queen merged with a bishop it is allowed it us slightly different to a queen as the bishop can move and the queen remain, though it takes a move to merge and a move to separate, so is probably rarely good. The best merges are took bishop, took pawn, bishop pawn, and Queen knight, the fantasy piece, the Amazon