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Chess variants (10x8)

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21. august 2004, 10:57:47

Chessmaster1000

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Emne: Gothic Chess on BrainKing........

Modifisert av Chessmaster1000 (21. august 2004, 11:06:55)

Yes Fencer (and Ed) should keep it here!

My humble opinion is that Gothic Chess is the best Chess variant i have seen until now. It may be even better** from Chess due to the unexplored territories* and to the 4 major pieces that create attacking nightmares to everyone, as brilliant sacrifices are a common theme at Gothic Chess.

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** We should define of course the "better".

* This unfortunatelly means that if we explore(meaning to analyse and play) Gothic Chess, then it would lose something from it's today's magic, but this is a common thing. It happened to Chess. More than 60% of the Chess games today (between GM's) are draws. Chess OF COURSE is not reaching it's end, but because the openings that the GM's are prefering have been analysed with the help of computers so extensively and also the fear of GM's to take a risk of a "dangerous"*** opening has lead to this situation.

***"Dangerous" = A little risky and unbalanced.