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Re: Why the apparent preference for the one move advantage in chess

John Kipling Lewis — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:56:20 GMT

What he said... ;-)

Re: Why the apparent preference for the one move advantage in chess?

John Kipling Lewis — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:55:38 GMT

I'd take you up on that offering. You can play as white and have a3. The other horrid move: f3

Re: Why the apparent preference for the one move advantage in chess?

Jerementality — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:16:00 GMT

Definitely. I would play black against 1. f3, 1. g4, possibly also the ones you mention. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: New pieces

Jose Carrillo — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:53:32 GMT

Here are two on my new pieces: The Courier Elephant: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MScourierelephan The Silver Elephant (leaper):

Re: Why the apparent preference for the one move advantage in chess?

David — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:53:23 GMT

Interesting. But I wonder if there is any move that is so horrid that would make the other player choose to take black and proceed? For example, even a

Re: Why the apparent preference for the one move advantage in chess?

Mats Winther — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:22:46 GMT

A case in point is Burmese Chess where pieces are dropped, also on friendly pawns, which are immediately relocated. This means that the variant is

Re: Why the apparent preference for the one move advantage in chess?

John Kipling Lewis — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:50:15 GMT

I like what you said here about opening moves in some variants being without regard to what the other player was moving. It would be interesting to see a

Re: Why the apparent preference for the one move advantage in chess?

joejoyce3 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:27:57 GMT

Jeremy, you're right, I sidetracked on discussing the elimination of the first-move advantage [or disadvantage], by answering other's responses directly rather

Re: New pieces

John Kipling Lewis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:16:52 GMT

I was thinking more along the lines of playing FTF. Of course a perfect arbiter is preferred. :-)

Re: New pieces

Mats Winther — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:14:05 GMT

... The preset, however, will check that the Swedish Cannon moves are legal. Mats

Re: New pieces

John Kipling Lewis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:28:44 GMT

My favourite is The Adjutant, although I differ in your valuation. I would rank it slightly higher than a rook, but only slightly. I love the Korean Cannon

Re: Why the apparent preference for the one move advantage in chess?

John Kipling Lewis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:21:22 GMT

In Simplified Chess, a variant designed to remove some of the kruft from Standard Chess, I've found that the first move advantage is greatly reduced but for an

Re: Why the apparent preference for the one move advantage in chess?

Jerementality — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:51:51 GMT

Mats Winther wrote: "Of course, it would be no point, for grandmasters, to devote themselves to orthochess if there were no first move

New pieces

Mats Winther — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:41:29 GMT

I have spent much time investigating new piece characteristics and have acheived some interesting results. Many are quite useful despite being atypical in

Re: Why the apparent preference for the one move advantage in chess?

Mats Winther — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:38:58 GMT

Of course, it would be no point, for grandmasters, to devote themselves to orthochess if there were no first move advantage. The game would have been even more