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In trying to revise and improve my idea of Dynamic Scoring, to bring
Komidashi to Chess, and make it as entertaining as it was before Steinitz, I came up with the following: At the start of a Chess game, also place 32 poker chips on the board, one on each of the unoccupied squares. Then, play Chess by the normal rules, but whenever a player is the first to move a piece to one of those squares, he also takes the chip on it. If the game would otherwise be a draw, the player with the most chips wins. A number would be added to how many chips Black has, just like Komidashi! Obviously, this is a horrible idea. While Ticket to Ride makes good use of its "longest train" rule, just as dice chess was rejected in the infancy of the game, this also is antithetical to the spirit of Chess as a game of pure skill. John Savard |
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On 11/08/2017 12:04 PM, Quadibloc wrote:
just as dice chess was rejected in the infancy of the game, this also is antithetical to the spirit of Chess as a game of pure skill. John Savard While it is probably not a very good variant, I don't see how it is any less skill-ful than chess. The state of the chips is known to both players at all times, and provides an interesting dimension along which it is white, not black, who needs to "catch up". |
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On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 10:53:10 AM UTC-7, Adrian Petrescu wrote:
While it is probably not a very good variant, I don't see how it is any less skill-ful than chess. The state of the chips is known to both players at all times, and provides an interesting dimension along which it is white, not black, who needs to "catch up". Well, since the number of chips is a tie-breaker, the players would be best advised to play chess normally, instead of trying to explore the board as much as possible. So the number of chips collected, although it wouldn't be determined by a random means, would still not really be under the control of the players, and most of the time it would come close to being just a random factor. John Savard |
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