BrainKing - Diskussionsforen (Chess variants (8x8))

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Chess variants (8x8)

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27. Juni 2011, 00:22:26

DarwinKoala

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Thema: Re: Loop Chess set

Fwiffo: At a minimum 2 sets of black and 2 sets of white. The combination of piece exchange means you will never have more than 4 knights/bishops/rooks or more than 2 Queens on the board.
The addition of promoting pawns does add more to this, which is no more of a pain than with regular chess sets.
To cover 90% of promotion cases, 3 sets of white and 3 sets of black should cover it?

27. Juni 2011, 09:19:06

rabbitoid

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Thema: Re: Loop Chess set

DarwinKoala: You're forgetting conversions. even in regular chess there's a theoretical possibility of 9 queens. Here too.
In loop chess conversions are far more common, parachuting pawns on the 7th row happens all the time.

27. Juni 2011, 15:43:36

grenv

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Thema: Re: Loop Chess set

rabbitoid: So 2 sets and a plethora of queens. No need for more than 2 full sets is there? Other than the queens.

27. Juni 2011, 16:57:20

Justaminute

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Thema: Re: Loop Chess set

grenv: You could underpromote to another piece.

27. Juni 2011, 20:35:13

grenv

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Thema: Re: Loop Chess set

Justaminute: yes, but it would seem to be vanishingly rare that you want 5 knights at the same time for example. I guess anything is possible.