I wonder why people like to play such a move-limited/dictated game like Dice Chess ? Is it a lack of skills to play regular chess or its sophisticated variants or just something else, like the need to have some thrill of unexpected ? I think the answer should be common for any game played with dice, including backgammon ... people like to play and risk percetage ... there are many situation in Dice Chess that chess skills do not count at all and the vision type of "what if" plays the role. Can one master the game ? Like in any game of chance and skill the better player will win in the long run.
This is not the place to discuss little, tiny tricks in Dice Chess ... the only thing I would like to point out, that they exist.
I propose another game of Dice Chess, but this time with 2 dice ... the funny and original feature in this game is this: one of the dice tells the player WHICH piece can be moved and the other one HOW it can move ... let's look at the example.
We got 4 and 3 ... since 4 stands for a rook and 3 for a bishop, so we have two possible moves: either rook (WHICH) can move like a bishop (HOW) or bishop(WHICH) can move like a rook(HOW) ...
Of course the beginning moves are somewhat limited and any (1)(?) pair will move pawns(WHICH)
in few possible way(HOW) ... example: 1 5 moves a pawn like a queen ...
Doubles are nothing special in this version. They just moves once for particular number/piece.
there is one restriction however: pawn can eliminate opponent's king only as a pawn so the only chance to kill the enemy king by a pawn is to get 1 and 1 ... it's to limit a tremendous power pawns have in this game (there are 8 of them after all and in the first row of attack).
I call this game MADCHESS, because no piece really moves like they suppose to ... with the exception of doubles ...
regards,
Andy a.k.a ChessVariant