Bobby Fischer on Paul Morphy and how opening theory destroyed chess.Well, I have to start by saying that I am sure that Bobby Fischer knows the Capablanca variant perfectly well, even though it may seem that he does not in the references he makes, but he probably does this consciously, since his intention is to refer in general to chess variants.
But yes, it is absolutely true that anyone who knows how complex chess can be can be intimidated by a variant like C'escacs. The advice, if someone feels intimidated by hexagonal chess variants, is to start by trying the Mini Hexchess, a small toy that allows you to lose your fear of hexagonal geometry.
There is a javascript C'escacs game display. It does only display moves on the screen, allowing only valid moves. It is also a place for saving and loading the game moves.
The Grand C'escacs variant available in the game play
There is a variant Grand C'escacs
, also named there as Grand Hunigcamb Chess
, which is an experimental variant I've used for doing some proves, but it has not been real game proved.
- Introduces the Almogavar piece, which also can be named as Archer. It moves orthogonally two steps on any of the six orthogonal directions, but always two steps. There are four of them.
- Each player has four knights and fiveteen pawns, one pawn on each column.
- Initial position of pawns on columns B, C, K, I are one step forward (two lines); they retain the triple step capability on those new initial positions.
- Pawns on colums A and L are the most advanced.
- The flank pawns from the A-column on one side, and L-column on the other, have no option for triple movement from those initial positions.
En passant captures
has been extended; Pawns, Almogavars and Elephants can do En passant
captures each other.- There is also an extension for the capture of the scornful pawn, which allows the capture of the pawn also when the scornful move has been done to capture a piece. On such situation, the special capture is done by the oponent pawn backwards.
