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Chess variants (10x8)

Sam has closed his piano and gone to bed ... now we can talk about the real stuff of life ... love, liberty and games such as
Janus, Capablanca Random, Embassy Chess & the odd mention of other 10x8 variants is welcome too

For posting:
- invitations to games (you can also use the New Game menu or for particular games: Janus; Capablanca Random; or Embassy)
- information about upcoming tournaments
- disussion of games (please limit this to completed games or discussion on how a game has arrived at a certain position
... speculation on who has an advantage or the benefits of potential moves is not permitted while that particular game is in progress)
- links to interesting related sites (non-promotional)

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3. Octubre 2004, 23:22:56

Grim Reaper

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A larger board tends to "dilute" the strength of the pieces. As an exaggeration to make a point, imagine a 5x5 board, and a board 100x100.

Place a queen near the center of each "empty" board. On the 5x5 board, the queen has 4 horizontal, 4 vertical, and 4 diagonal (x 2) moves. It can reach 16 of the 25 squares. 16/25 means it can cover 64% of the board in one move.

You can see on the 100x100 board, with 10,000 squares, there is no way it is going to reach 6,400 (64%) of these squares. It will reach (100-1) x 4 = 396. You can see 396/10,000 is a very small fraction.

In this sense, pieces on a smaller board are stronger since they have a greater "density".