pauloaguia: Actually, such a variant has already been specified elsewhere and is called Assimilation

pauloaguia: Heck, we'd finally have a game that says "This version of the game was created by Fencer, in 2006, ... " :)

furbster: I also think that both versions could coexist. But the one with the knight-jump should be the one called Ataxx. Otherwise you'd just confuse people coming here for the first time, especially if they already know how to play the game.
Name the current one Straight Ataxx or whatever, but don't give an alternate name to the standard rules.
Fencer: To avoid regular mixups of rule changes in the middle of the game, and to avoid restarting all games all over again, maybe just rename the current one and create the real ataxx version as a new game, if you decide to do so. Of course that would imply retranslating some tokens... :/

pedrored: I've been doing a little digging. Every page I find with Ataxx rules specifies a square area that you can jump to, so it includes the knight-type jump.
Seems like the rules were not entirely correctly interpreted when it was implemented here but that's for Fencer to say something about and correct if that's the case.

Since you've played this before, what's your oppinion about the difference in the rules? Does it make the game easier, harder, more biased towards one of the players...?