| Game: The ShortRange Project |
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Invented by Christine Bagley-Jones, Joe Joyce
Implemented by Christine Bagley-Jones, 2006-10-28
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32 variants
requires ZoG 2.0
Checkmate
2-player
download 70 K
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The evolution of Western chess has been toward more powerful, longrange
pieces. Shortrange pieces were perceived as weak and not very effective,
so were abandoned in favor of longrange pieces. Western chess variants
have generally emphasized this trend, giving us more, and more powerful,
longrange pieces. These pieces often combine a longrange and a shortrange
piece together, making bishop-guard and rook-knight kinds of pieces.
But often the intention seems mostly to allow the longrange component
easier maneuvering to line up its cross-board attack. And the number of
shortrange leapers in modern Western general use has dwindled
down to the knight.
The quest for "faster, longer, stronger" has left an entire area
of piece evolution all but ignored. The ShortRange Project is an attempt
to counter this trend.
Included games are:
- HyperModern Shatranj (2 variants)
- HyperModern Great Shatranj (4 variants)
- LSM Chess (4 variants)
- Shatranj 10x8 (2 variants)
- Alice Shatranj (20 variants)
See the included documentation for much more info on each game. |
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